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anyone know away to send an extremely large file to printer? its about 70mb. my email will only go to 25mb
 
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How far away is your printer? Thumb drives are cheap and easy to use. I pretty much had one that I used exclusively for marketing that I just brought over there every time I needed to get my guy more data.
 
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Why is so large? Photo? Reduce the resolution is one way.

Or FTP the file. Email was never meant for large attachments.
 
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Rockstar pizza:
anyone know away to send an extremely large file to printer? its about 70mb. my email will only go to 25mb
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Use WinRAR and break it into 5mb parts.
 
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Breaking up a file should be the last option…

You send it works very well…

Is the file that large because the images have been re-sized in the program itself versus an image editing program (Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, etc.)?..
 
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Yeah, break it into 14 files lol. That would be fun.

Better yet, burn it to a cd and send it in the mail!
 
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Rockstar pizza:
extremely large file to printer?
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Not that big a file 😛 Some of mine are 650 mb in size 😉

Two things to do to shrink it down to a manageable size without losing quality assuming you are sending a “ready-to-print” file. Import the file into Photoshop and go to layer>flatten image. This will make all the graphics “one image” instead of multiple images that make up a bigger file. Then save the file as a Photoshop PDF file for easy use by your printer.

Since you’re only starting with a 70 mb file this should be enough. If it is still not small enough, use Suffit Deluxe to compress it.

Sending files through email is pretty outdated as a means of transporting files now. A good printer should have an upload section on their site or a separate third party means of uploading large file as others have attested.
 
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pizzapirate:
Two things to do to shrink it down to a manageable size without losing quality assuming you are sending a “ready-to-print” file. Import the file into Photoshop and go to layer>flatten image. This will make all the graphics “one image” instead of multiple images that make up a bigger file. Then save the file as a Photoshop PDF file for easy use by your printer.
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Thats assuming he he has photoshop… And my guess is he doesn’t.
 
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pizzapirate:
Two things to do to shrink it down to a manageable size without losing quality assuming you are sending a “ready-to-print” file. Import the file into Photoshop and go to layer>flatten image. This will make all the graphics “one image” instead of multiple images that make up a bigger file. Then save the file as a Photoshop PDF file for easy use by your printer.
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Thats assuming he he has photoshop… And my guess is he doesn’t.
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Gimp is free.
 
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One of these days most good software will be run off a “cloud” where you have to log in to the vendor’s server to use the program…
 
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royster13:
One of these days most good software will be run off a “cloud” where you have to log in to the vendor’s server to use the program…
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What if you dont have an internet connection?
 
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Then you will be probably be s.h.i.t. out of luck…

Distributing and retail packaging of software is about 40% to 50% of the final cost…By cutting out this layer software vendors can make software less costly or way better…

Intuit has now starting a monthly subscription plan for QuickBooks (not for Canada yet)…They built a huge server farm at Quincy WA (along with Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, etc.)…Programs and data will reside on their servers and you will log in to use them…It will be a big change in the way software is sold…
 
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I cant imagine that would be good for the business that use that kind of software. What if a project is due that very day that the server or their internet connection goes down.
 
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I cant imagine that would be good for the business that use that kind of software. What if a project is due that very day that the server or their internet connection goes down.
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Same as your phone service. What if it goes down? That is why you have “Disaster Planning”.

A cloud is not on one server but distributed on many servers. It is much more fault tolerant. And the company client would also build a level of redundancy into their connectivity commensurate with the cost of downtime.
 
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