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Large greyscale image won't print

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From: Stuart_Jefferson_Adams
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 1990 04:28
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I am trying to print a large greyscal image with postscript
when I try to print an image thats too big the printer never
prints the page. Smaller images in the same format work fine.
I thought it might be a memory problem but I tried the large image
on a QMS COlorScript with 8 Megs of RAM and it still did not work.

Is there a way to get around this if its simply a memory problem ??
How can I find out how much memroy the printer has for image area
and for user data ???

the image is 511x1020 pixels (1 byte/pixel).  the postscript file
that is generated is a little larger than 1 Meg. However, I can use
an option to use RLE encoding to make the postscript file approx. 750 K
and this still does not help. (I am using the pbmplus tools pgmtops).

Thanks,
Stuart

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Stuart Adams	stuart_adams@cup.portal.com s       sja@draper.com
Draper Labs
555 Tech Square
Cambridge MA
617-258-2257
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