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Bair Art Edition's Tutorial on:
Epson Professional Printing Workflow
How to Save a Print File
The ease and convenience of an archived print file is a wonderful thing for those of us who plan on making multiple prints of the same image in the future. Once made, you never have to remember the settings, just the printer it was made for and the media used. Once engaged it will instantly print (no more waiting for long spooling) and you can alsways change the number of copies.
Archived Print files come standard with most RIPs, but they are also available with some operating systems. Mac OS X does not have the ability (as far as we've seen with the current drivers. OS 9, however does. PC users will be happy to know that it is also available on Windows.
Mac OS 9
When you have set everything the way you want it (refer to printing procedure section), and you are in the printer driver menu, click twice on the button outlined in the image below (outlined in blue and red).
As you can see, the button to its right no longer says "Print." I now reads "Save File." Click on "Save File," and name it appropriately in a place that you will want to find it.
It will save the file in the same manner as it prints a file. Unfortunately it will take as long to save a file like this as it would to print it, so only do this if you are investing in the future. Otherwise it will end up taking twice as long as it would normally.
 When you are ready to print the file (it will look like the icon to the right), double click on it, and the following window will pop up (if you have a 7600 it will look like this, 2200, 9600, and 1280 look just like it except for the name on the window):
As you can see, I've double-clicked in the "copies" field, and can now set it to print any quantity I want. To start, just hit the green "play" button.
Windows Operating Systems
I don't own one of these babies, I'ma mac man, but Chris at InkJetArt does. Here's a tutorial he has written on the very subject:
How to save a print file on the PC
(You'll have to scroll down for the PC info)
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