VP-540 prints slow when playing videos.

I think its time for you to go old school and hook up a radio.

 

Maybe it's a problem with the bandwidth traffic on your ethernet card?

 

yep.. network bandwidth is choking thr printer.

 

Might need to get a cheap print server (aka rip), if you did that it would rip the job from the server and your computer won't have to do anything.

 

does the 540 have a 10/100/1000 network card??
Would it be worth putting one in the rip?

 

It's definitely the network bandwidth. Does this also happen if you're just playing music stored on your hard drive? I would also go into the Task Manager and see if you have all sorts of processes and applications running that don't need to be and shut them down. That can slow things up tremendously.

Also, porn looks better on an HDTV rather than a PC so maybe stop watching and printing at the same time..just saying LOL

 

I have a 24" imac, it is not uncommon for me to watch pawn stars in one corner, design something in illy, print from versaworks using parallels & xp, all the while the mail ap is open & hits the server every minute for email. No problem & while I am at it I will pull something from the 3 other Macs on the network if I need it. I have never seen the printer slow or stop. Just letting you know what I have experienced.

 

If i have a video play while Corel is open....it screws up Corel and if you try to move something in the program it makes copy after copy of it until you restart the program

 

HighOctane if you are talking about Corel and the move and copying, try hitting your space bar and see if it quites rather than restart!

 

High Octane,
You can also try zooming in and out again. Usually fixes the "ghosting".

Mainframe,
I've seen this happen when the network is getting hit really hard. I have also seen it happen when the processor gets slammed, but it's usually the network. I'd venture to say you have a gigibit card in your iMac. One cheap fix is to just add another NIC.

As far as using a RIP, Versaworks is the RIP. It rips on the computer and transfers the print data to the printer as it prints.

 

cdiesel, I think you misunderstood my post, I was bragging about my imac, in short, I seem to be able to do a bunch of things including watch movies while printing without any trouble, I was suggesting maybe he look into getting one.

 

Tried hookin up via the USB to see what happens then?

I've seen similar issues on printing, but usually mine were resource related. I use like a pentium 4 2 ghz for RIP'ing, but that's its sole purpose in life, I set a job up to RIP and print, then go back to designing on my other PC. Every once in awhile if I try to change artwork/etc while printing, I've noticed it'll pause up like an old Windows 98 app. Also, are you set up to do RIP, then print, or do you use Versaworks RIP while printing option ? The difference being the first will basically compose the complete output for the printer before it sends it to the printer, the latter will do it on the fly and could cause potential bottlenecking.