> I'd like to rather see this as a "get to know something new every day". ;-) All right then!
> When you print something, the system reads the file and sends the DATA to > the printer... regardless of the original file format it was saved in. > (at least, that's what I understood) You're right. I was still thinking in terms of Postscript printers, but these days most printers just get a bitmap formatted properly for them by the printer driver. That leaves me wondering what a printer's CPU is doing these days. Anyway, the OP might look into a RAM upgrade for that printer. That would be kind of an answer to his question, after all. > Saving an uncompressed TIF or an higly compressed JPG takes the same time (on > a > modern Mac), but with the JPG you get 1/10th of the size (or less). Yes, but I was talking of lossless compression, where tighter compression requires more passes through the file. Photoshop doesn't give a choice when saving TIFF files except for Layer Compression, where "ZIP" takes about twice the time. But it's true, that's only a few seconds difference on my 2x500 G4 (for a 2MB file). > But it was 68030, 68040 and "tens of MHz" time! ;-) > Nowadays, even a cell phone has more CPU power than a Mac Quadra... :-D Yeah, I remember printing to graphic film with a IIci upgraded to 12MB RAM, or was it 20, and a 100MB harddisk. And that's only 15 years ago... -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
