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Rosemary61

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May 23rd, 2005 18:00

3100cn Postscript Driver

Hi,
I am having troubles with the ps driver on the 3100cn. The PS driver is my default driver, and works fine unless I change any settings in the advanced options. The setting I wanted to change was in the Printer Features. I changed the Print Mode from high speed to high quality. When I make that change everything seems to stall, The job either stalls in the que forever or if it manages to leave the que the printer displays "Processing Port 9100" all day. It never prints. I have to press cancel and that also stalls. The only way to clear is to turn printer off and on.
How can I get a high quality setting without locking everything up?
 
Thanks

cytoxman

4 Posts

May 23rd, 2005 23:00

Could be that you need more memory to print at the size you want in high quality mode. You can't print a very big picture with only the basic 64Mb of memory.

oncall247

88 Posts

May 24th, 2005 15:00

The memory limit is not accurate in this instance, and the erroneous conclusion of people using the PCL driver (which processes the info on the computer and streams a LARGE data set to the printer, thus is faster and much higher in memory requirement) vs the PS driver (which streams a small set of commands and data and processes it on board the printer).

PS has the ability to print tremendously large photos/graphics vs. PCL of the same memory size. I have not hit memory barriers printing 15+ megapixel (that is 4800x3200) photos with 64mb. If you have a memory error, you will receive a message saying 'out of memory' which will display itself on the printer lcd.

The problem is that the rendering for high quality takes longer than the high speed setting (if this were not obvious enough). Moreover, it is very likely that if you waited for a long enough time, the document would print. Remember, it is rendering the image in the printer itself, which is MUCH slower than your computer. I would just leave it in high speed mode, which has little difference in output as compared to the high quality mode. Much more important is the resolution of the image going into the unit. Memory addition can speed up this process, but only if it is a data transfer slowdown, rather than a rendering slowdown)

good luck,

oncall

Message Edited by oncall247 on 05-24-2005 11:22 AM

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