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what computer specs for making larger prints from scanned 4x5 slides
recently purchased an epson 4900 scanner for some of my 4x5 and 6x6
slides. My old dell computer (about 5 years old) freezes up with file sizes over 600k. If I would like to make large prints (30 or 40 or bigger) from scanned slides what would I need or look for in a new computer to handle such large file sizes. I am guessing file sizes up to 500mb. Any help or suggestions are appreciated. Ed M www.traquilimages.com |
what computer specs for making larger prints from scanned 4x5 slides
"Ed Margiewicz" wrote in message
... recently purchased an epson 4900 scanner for some of my 4x5 and 6x6 slides. My old dell computer (about 5 years old) freezes up with file sizes over 600k. If I would like to make large prints (30 or 40 or bigger) from scanned slides what would I need or look for in a new computer to handle such large file sizes. I am guessing file sizes up to 500mb. Any help or suggestions are appreciated. Ed M www.traquilimages.com I ran into the printing problem before I upgraded from a 4GB to a large C: drive, with decent free space. It's currently 40GB and there's about 7GB spare; with data stored on an 80GB. RAM is 512MB which was fine until I scanned some of 4x5s last week creating 100MB files. PS now crawls and the graphics are tiled, so I'm guessing that I need to upgrade RAM tp at least 1GB. I'm sure people using their gear professionally will advise even more capacity. -- M Stewart Milton Keynes, UK http://www.megalith.freeserve.co.uk/oddimage.htm |
what computer specs for making larger prints from scanned 4x5 slides
"Ed Margiewicz" wrote in message ... recently purchased an epson 4900 scanner for some of my 4x5 and 6x6 slides. My old dell computer (about 5 years old) freezes up with file sizes over 600k. If I would like to make large prints (30 or 40 or bigger) from scanned slides what would I need or look for in a new computer to handle such large file sizes. I am guessing file sizes up to 500mb. Any help or suggestions are appreciated. Ed M www.traquilimages.com Lots more memory and a bigger disk are indicated here. Jim |
what computer specs for making larger prints from scanned 4x5 slides
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"Ed Margiewicz" wrote: recently purchased an epson 4900 scanner for some of my 4x5 and 6x6 slides. My old dell computer (about 5 years old) freezes up with file sizes over 600k. If I would like to make large prints (30 or 40 or bigger) from scanned slides what would I need or look for in a new computer to handle such large file sizes. I am guessing file sizes up to 500mb. Any help or suggestions are appreciated. Ed M www.traquilimages.com http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPL....woa/71606/wo/ VniUEIyOWjAF3UZk19V1EtF8XHo/2.?p=0 -- http://thepathlessland.blogspot.com/ http://ChristianBonanno.com/ |
what computer specs for making larger prints from scanned 4x5 slides
On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 15:35:29 -0700, "Ed Margiewicz" wrote:
recently purchased an epson 4900 scanner for some of my 4x5 and 6x6 slides. My old dell computer (about 5 years old) freezes up with file sizes over 600k. If I would like to make large prints (30 or 40 or bigger) from scanned slides what would I need or look for in a new computer to handle such large file sizes. I am guessing file sizes up to 500mb. Any help or suggestions are appreciated. P4 3GHz with 2 gig of memory with a large HD would make it easy. |
what computer specs for making larger prints from scanned 4x5 slides
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Ed Margiewicz wrote: recently purchased an epson 4900 scanner for some of my 4x5 and 6x6 slides. My old dell computer (about 5 years old) freezes up with file sizes over 600k. If I would like to make large prints (30 or 40 or bigger) from scanned slides what would I need or look for in a new computer to handle such large file sizes. I am guessing file sizes up to 500mb. Any help or suggestions are appreciated. I'm using a PowerMac G4, 1.25GHz with 2 gigabytes of RAM. Scanned 4x5 makes it a bit sluggish. Get the fastest machine you can, and put as much memory as it'll take in it. |
what computer specs for making larger prints from scanned 4x5 slides
On 2005-10-24 18:35:29 -0400, "Ed Margiewicz" said:
recently purchased an epson 4900 scanner for some of my 4x5 and 6x6 slides. My old dell computer (about 5 years old) freezes up with file sizes over 600k. If I would like to make large prints (30 or 40 or bigger) from scanned slides what would I need or look for in a new computer to handle such large file sizes. I am guessing file sizes up to 500mb. Any help or suggestions are appreciated. Ed M www.traquilimages.com More RAM and more DISK space. If you are considering buying a new computer (any you should.. a 5 year old Dell is a little long in the tooth) I recommend multiple drives rather than one huge drive. If you buy a windows machine, consider at least two internal drives and perhaps three. As a general rule, on Windows, I have one drive for Windows and the applications as well as the Windows swap drive (this can be relatively small, 40 GB's or smaller, but it should be fast, 7200 RPM or better. This is often difficult with a small drive as they are usually low end slow ones. I partition the second drive, the first is a 20 GB partition just for my photo softwares swap space.. ie Adobe Photoshop. The second partiion holds all my non photo data.. ie documents, mp3's etc. The thrid drive only holds digital images. I do a similar arrangement on my Mac. Although the OS swap does not get used as heavily. -- Jim |
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