Printing large pictures

[Kurt Pfeifle]

schani <schani at schani.com> wrote (Wednesday 05 July 2006 12:58):

> Hello, i use cups server on a Suse 9.0 with HP 5 N 2MB Ram.
> I have the problem at printing large Photos from Photoshop (43MB).
> 
> The printer tells me that he is printing on a reduced mode cause low
> memory.
> Es its true that the HP only have 2 MB but is there a way to prevent
> this via cups ?
> 
> What can i do ?  - without invest in mor RAM ;-)
> 
> Thanks for help
> 
> Christian

You can try and set "RIPCache" to a higher value in cupsd.conf.
It defaults to 8 MegaByte. Try one of these settings (or even
higher)

  RIPCache 64m
  RIPCache 128m
  RIPCache 256m

and see if this helps (provided that your CUPS host does in fact
have enough RAM to do that).

Cheers,
Kurt