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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
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