Printer problems

[whirling1]

Ok heres the problem...I built myself a nice new PC and after a few probs got it running real nice, except for some unknown reason my printer seems incapable of printing anything larger than 100mb in size. With my old system I could print a photo scanned at 2880 and print it at 2880 dpi (about 700mb) without a problem. Now it seems to process the data to the spool but loose abou 70% of it .....if you check photo size it says 700mb but print manager window only displays 100mb , the print starts up ok but ends about 10% into picture but no errors are displayed. Also now and again print manager displays a dummy document in the window too ????

system is

Athlon 2600XP
Asus A7N8X DX mobo
1GB PC2700 DDR
80GB Maxtor Diamond 9 HDD
windows 2K
Scanner is AGFA Snapscan E40
printer is Epson stylus 680 (max 2880 dpi)...I have tried printer on USB and printer port ..same probs both times.

Any help will be appreciated.

 

[Embattle]

Have you tried getting it to spool the entire document before printing?

 

[landlordz]

hmmm, not sure if this would apply.. but if you have buggered about and put your OS onto a lil partition....

Some reasons for changing the spool directory for a computer setup as print server :
There is not enough room at the default location (%systemroot%\system32\spool\printers) causing the large print jobs to fail
There is a faster HDD available which can improve the performance of the printing
There is a need to distribute the print jobs for different printers on different HDDs
One can change the default location of the spool folder :
Control Panel -> Printers
File-menu -> Server Properties
Select the Advanced-tab and change the "Spool Folder"
One can also change the default location in the registry :

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \SYSTEM \CurrentControlSet \Control \Print \Printers]
DefaultSpoolDirectory =

One can change it for a specific printer :

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \SYSTEM \CurrentControlSet \Control \Print \Printers \{Specific Printer Id}]
SpoolDirectory =

More Info MS KB Q123747
More Info MS KB Q314105

( All lifted from http://snakefoot.fateback.com/tweak/winnt/tips.html )