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Digitizing Documents and Reprinting Scott 04-28-2004
Posted by Scott on April 28, 2004, 7:59 am
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Hi Folks,

I'm hoping I can get a little assistance with a problem. My company
scans manuals at 600 dpi on a Canon 8500 and saves them in an adobe
..pdf format. When we go to print one of these manuals, if the manual
is to large, let's say over 400 pages we receive a "Disk Full"
message. Now I know why this is happening since the print process
actually uncompresses the .pdf file in order to print. But each page
when uncompressed is 93.6Mb in size, thus making a 400 page manual
require a great deal of hard drive space in order to store the
temporary files before printing. We do not have a print server and
print directly to the IP address through an LPR port. I have tried
just about everything that I know to resolve the problem, such as
printing directly to the printer as well as printing the file as an
image and nothing has seemed to work.

I'm curious to know if there may be other companies that may be doing
something similiar and how they get around this issue. I'm looking for
a VERY cost effective way to resolve this problem.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Scott


Posted by Paul Cooper on April 28, 2004, 5:03 pm
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On 28 Apr 2004 07:59:10 -0700, scott@jensales.com (Scott) wrote:

>Hi Folks,
>
>I'm hoping I can get a little assistance with a problem. My company
>scans manuals at 600 dpi on a Canon 8500 and saves them in an adobe
>.pdf format. When we go to print one of these manuals, if the manual
>is to large, let's say over 400 pages we receive a "Disk Full"
>message. Now I know why this is happening since the print process
>actually uncompresses the .pdf file in order to print. But each page
>when uncompressed is 93.6Mb in size, thus making a 400 page manual
>require a great deal of hard drive space in order to store the
>temporary files before printing. We do not have a print server and
>print directly to the IP address through an LPR port. I have tried
>just about everything that I know to resolve the problem, such as
>printing directly to the printer as well as printing the file as an
>image and nothing has seemed to work.
>
>I'm curious to know if there may be other companies that may be doing
>something similiar and how they get around this issue. I'm looking for
>a VERY cost effective way to resolve this problem.
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Thanks
>Scott

And this is connected to GIS in what way?

You could simply print ranges of pages that will fit in your available
disc space, rather than the entire document at once. Otherwise, I
don't think there are any magic bullets - of course, you could get a
printer that will print PDF directly - some HP printers will do this.

Paul


Posted by Scott on April 29, 2004, 7:59 am
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Thanks for the info. I've pretty much come to the conclusion that the
documents will have to be printed in ranges then merged at the printer
itself. We used to actually print the manuals out in a .tif format,
but unforunately printing in this format does not allow to print
different sized originals and the acrobat .pdf file does. Plus is
doesn't help when your scanning in at 600 dpi, since each page of the
document is so large when the .pdf file is uncompressed. But such is
the life for an IT Director, trying to build houses out of toothpicks
and mud :)

Thanks for the help
Scott


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