Flexi Take Forevor

[Jeremy092288]

OK so flexi takes forevor..... I have a picture that I need to put on wall vinyl. It's a regular picture from a digital camera that I put through genuine fractals and Made it a lot bigger. It is 122 w x 65 h all of the digital picture. The JPG I used is 114 mb. When I try to RIP it it takes about 45 minutes.... then when I want to print it accross the network mind you it wants to take up to 3 or 4 hours according to my calculations of the percentage rate and the minutes.... I can produce a .PRT file on here to get the the printing machine.... but it's a 7.15 gb file!!!! I don't really know what I am doing.... is there a rule of thumb as to how big the file needs to be?

Thanks
Jeremy

 

[Jeremy092288]

I left it overnight and when I walked in it was only at 80 percent......

This thing sucks

 

[ProWraps™]

how much RAM do you have?

 

[Sign-Man Signs]

Sounds like a RAM issue to me also. What DPI you trying to print?

 

[Rodan68]

The jpg is 114MB but what's the uncompressed size? Sounds like you're image is about 600 dpi making it actually a 7Gig file and killing your computer. Try resampling down to 72-120 dpi. Should reduce the file to a couple hundred MB and ease the strain on your computer.

 

[Sign-Man Signs]

I agree about the dpi. We printed a 14'x 21' golf course mural at 100 dpi. As I recall, with tile it took about 40 minutes to RIP. Really think it's a dpi issue now.

 

[Jeremy092288]

Yeah... i re ripped at 100 and it only took 37 minutes..... thanks boys..... Why did I think everything had to be printed at 300 dpi? and how do you know how high you should print it out?

 

[Replicator]

What is your printer model . . . Curious ?

 

[Jeremy092288]

Mutoh 1204

 

[zgraphics]

Try opening your file in Photoshop and then saving it as jpeg. Maybe this will make the jpeg a little smaller. What program are you using to rip?

 

[Jeremy092288]

Flexi Sign.... is there something else I should be using? This is what I use for designing so.....