Dear Heidi,

I assume that yuo are using Windows '95 ! ! If so:

1. You may have a temp directory on the "C" drive (C:\TEMP)
2. Win '95 also has a temp directory (Windows / Temp)
3. Win '95 also has a spool directory (Windows / Spool / Fax and
Printers)

I think that we may have found the answer:

A. You have a limited amount of free space on the drive that holds
Win'95
B. You are spooling out Post Script files to the printer
C. Post Script files are always "humongus" in size (more so than any
others)
D. You have youe Spooler set to wait untill the last page is spooled
before starting to print.
E. I assume that you have not increased the printers on board memory.

Things to try:

1. Set the spooler to start printing as soon as the first page is
spooled (that will start emptying the spooler right away and may make
room for the rest of the file).

2. Start moving everything off of the partition that holds Win '95 and
enlarge that partition (the latest version of "Partition Magic" from
PowerQuest will handle all sizes of drives and all type of File
Allocation Tables, it also includes "Magic Mover" which will move
aplications from one partition to another and automatically change the
address within Windows - it's fully automatic, makes changing partition
sizes "a piece of cake").

I hope this helps, please keep me informed as to how things work out.

Bob Dingwall
Contact-Pro@worldnet.att.net

Heidi Waldmann wrote:

> In response to your questions, Bob...
>
> I can't seem to find just where on the boot drive the spooler is
> writing the
> temp file. I sent a job from Quark to print to a port that wasn't
> ready so I
> could check, but I was unable to find any newly written files in any
> of the
> Windows or System directories or the root or temp directories on any
> of the
> drives.
>
> I have two hard drives. One is about 2G and the other is about 4G. The
>
> larger one is the drive that has Windows, in the C: partition. Other
> partitions on that drive are E:, F:, G:, and H:. The smaller drive has
> two
> partitions, D: and I:.
>
> In addition, I also have a Jaz drive, K:, a Zip drive, L:, and an
> optical
> drive, J:. The CD-ROM, M:, is not writable.
>
> The swap is set to 100MB min and max on I:. For what it's worth, the
> timestamp on it does not change when something is printed.
>
> Currently, spool settings are set to print after last page is spooled,
> in
> RAW format, with bi-directional printing enabled.
>
> I'm using an HP4M (Postscript), Epson 1520 (color), and an Epson 5000
> (dot
> matrix). Virtual printers include Acrobat 3 (Distiller Assistant), and
> a
> Lino 630. I've currently got Adobe's 4.2.3 driver installed.
>
> I use Exchange rather than the Reader.
>
> I did see the message about the HP4, but that refers to the HP4L which
> is
> not a Postscript printer. My printer has no raster option.
>
> Does this help?
>
> --Heidi