Printing from Photoshop

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For setting up multiple print queues in Windows, in Control Panel>Devices and Printers, click on add new printer, and select the printer you want the second queue for, and agree to use the driver already installed, and give it a name, eg. "Mug transfers"

You can then also look in the print driver options, and set schedules that the different queues will print during - so could have one which only prints overnight etc ... we often set the hard products which are slower as need higher quality to print overnight, and only let the fabrics transfers print during the day.

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Justin - we use CC and this still happens so don't hold your breath. Pisquee - you seem very knowledgable so could I ask why you think that we often get a printer getting a print error and restarting whole job again? We print from one Windows 10 computer to multiple printers but it seems to happen on SG400 and Epson 7800. For instance we could send 50 prints to do on SG400 and after say 30 prints the printer will throw a wobbly, print half a page and then start the whole job again meaning you end up with 80 prints. The same often with the large format printer where it will stop half way and begin the whole print job. Nothing else is running on the Windows laptop. Is there perhaps better print queue software you can get for Windows if the built in software is rubbish?

[UK Printed Mugs]

Justin - we use CC and this still happens so don't hold your breath. Pisquee - you seem very knowledgable so could I ask why you think that we often get a printer getting a print error and restarting whole job again? We print from one Windows 10 computer to multiple printers but it seems to happen on SG400 and Epson 7800. For instance we could send 50 prints to do on SG400 and after say 30 prints the printer will throw a wobbly, print half a page and then start the whole job again meaning you end up with 80 prints. The same often with the large format printer where it will stop half way and begin the whole print job. Nothing else is running on the Windows laptop. Is there perhaps better print queue software you can get for Windows if the built in software is rubbish?

[GoonerGary]

BTW, are you just repeat printing stored designs/images? If so, then why not save them as PDF's along with the relevant ICC profile and then just print the PDF's as and when required, without any Photoshop involvement?

I have printed sublimation prints like this with the correct ICC for my setup and they print fine.

I remember you offering that advice before, but I didn't get looking at it until now. I think I've set it up correctly, but won't know until I print something out. But it just occurred to me afterwards that it won't work because I could have thousands of designs saved with a profile which is only as good as the life of a printer. I would have to resave everything when printer dies.

[webtrekker]

That's true, Gary. I'd imagine it also being the same with saved printfiles, unless I'm missing something (not unusual for me!).

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Pisquee - you seem very knowledgeable so could I ask why you think that we often get a printer getting a print error and restarting whole job again?

Get a separate SSD for the print spool files - if you're running with only one HD for everything, then it will get full of temp files, swap file, and will run out of space for the spool file, and when it hits the limit, it will start again. See above post about separate SSDs for each type of thing, as well as making sure you have more RAM installed than you need (this computer has 144GB of RAM - not that we need it, just it wasn't pricey and it was the max we could install, so I did! - have two of these machines, both dual Xeon CPUs too)

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Circled is the keep printed documents - so you can just keep clicking reprint
You can also see the schedule option at the top, to set the print queue to only run for certain times of day
Also, priority (1-100 available) which print queue is most important (If you right click on individual print jobs in the queue, you can assign priorities per job - once they're in the queue, so if you need something quick boost it to 100, and it will come off next. the default for all jobs is 1, so easy to reorder what comes out.