As already mentioned in chapters “Paper Format” and “Resolution or Print Quality”, high resolutions thus respectively large paper
formats can lead to huge output files. In what concerns the uncompressed image
files, EXTIF pro still takes care on its own that
·
there
is sufficient free space on the selected storage medium available
·
and the general size restriction for image files of
2 ^ 32 Byte = 4.2
Gigabyte
is not
exceeded.
However EXTIF pro cannot predict the
future compression rate of compressed image files, so you have to ensure there
is enough free space on the hard disk, and that the 4.2 gigabyte restriction
will not be exceeded.
3.5.1. Duration of printing process
At high resolutions and / or with a
large Paper Format,
printing can occasionally take several hours.
In order to enable you to make an
approximate estimation: On a computer with frequency of 1 GHz and a memory of
256 MB, printing an "A4 Extra Plus" format page at resolution 4800
dpi usually takes about 20 minutes; but at resolution 300 dpi, it only takes
approx. 12 seconds.
If, after the completion of the
printing process, you want the see the result using an image viewer program, i.e. to open
the issued image file with the image viewer, you will notice that sometimes
your computer's memory is not large enough for this action. Typical, partly
misleading warnings of your image viewer could look like this:
·
"System
running out of virtual memory“
·
"Image
file header error“
·
"Bad or
unrecognized image header“
·
"Unknown
file format“
·
"File
too large“.