CompuServe Thread

Thomas, The process you are describing is called tiling. The tiling feature is for printers that can't print an 'E' size piece of paper, so we print out lotsa' little 'A' size pieces to paste into the final 'E' size. On the DesignJet we do the opposite of tiling. Since the DesignJet can take large format paper we need to send the image to the large format in pieces for the 'plotter' to put together …(g)… The DesignJet uses an HP graphics language called RTL. RTL can be run two ways. The first way requires the whole image to be received by the plotter and then have enough memory to print the whole image. The second way is the way RenderPrint uses which is RTl data stream. In this mode the computer works a little' and then sends a little' to the plotter, then the plotter prints a little' and repeats until the image is complete. At the last A/E/C Systems show I was printing out 20mg to 40mb TGA files on a DesignJet that had only the standard 4mb and we were using a notebook computer that had only 8mb of memory. Hope this answers your questions. Russ Insight Development