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               State University of New York at Stony Brook
                       Stony Brook, NY 11794-3331
 
                                            David Y Allen
                                            Library-Reference
                                            516 632-7110
                                            11-May-1995 08:54am EDT
FROM:  DYALLEN
TO:    Remote Addressee                     ( [log in to unmask] )
 
Subject: Printing Maps
 
        We have recently acquired a Hewlett Packard DeskJet 560C printer.  I
have been using it with mixed results to print maps created by several programs
(Map Expert, ArcView2, and Graphics Workshop for Windows).  I have been having
particular difficulties printing with ArcView2, and I suspect there is a bug in
the program interfering with print spooling.  Small files print OK, but large
files (more than a megabyte or so) don't print at all.  The people at ESRI
suggested that my printer needs more RAM, but I am not sure that this is the
source of the problem.  I can print larger files with other programs, but am
encountering other annoying problems with them.  (For example, maps do not fill
the entire page.)  I am running these programs on an IBM 486 with 16M of RAM.
 
        Do these problems sound familiar to anyone?  Is purchasing more RAM for
the printer going to make them go away?  If so, how much do I need?  Is there
anything else I can do to improve printing of large files?