RIP Taking forever, How do I know its working???

[depps74]

I used Flexi Print for my HP 315. I got an order for 80 pics all different sizes and dimensions. Most average about 50-100MB. I put all of them in for a RIP, not happening. Then tried 40 and it hung on 98 for about 30min till I quit it. Then tried 10 and same thing: hung on 98%.

Whats going on? Any tips or tricks appreciated.

 

[Solventinkjet]

What are your computer specs?

 

[bannertime]

I would setup a hot folder (setup>setup properties>hot folder) and then drag or copy all the files into it. Then RIP maybe 5-10 at a time.

 

[Saturn]

You could try going into the settings/preferences and see if you can set concurrent files to RIP to a lower value that what you have it set at now.

 

[ColorCrest]

Whats going on?

You're out of disk space. The RIP creates very large files paged to disk. Make some space, usually by clearing older printed files from a holding queue.

 

[Solventinkjet]

You're out of disk space. The RIP creates very large files paged to disk. Make some space, usually by clearing older printed files from a holding queue.

That's what I was thinking. Especially if you don't have a lot of RAM and the disk is low on storage.

 

[myront]

jpg or tiff?
We export raster images as tif's @ no more than 150dpi using LZW compression. Virtually no difference in quality but a quarter the file size. Yes, as stated we drop into a hot folder and let our print tech arrange for best fit on media etc.

 

[Ian Stewart-Koster]

50-100 meg? What physical size are they? The file size maybe the big problem.

 

[AF]

Add ram, use SSD scratch disks and make sure your RIP is configured correctly.