OT Maybe - Printer Buffer - Hardware or Software

I use my 64 bit machine for photography. Lately I have been editng my
images and then printing them in batches of 10. Usually 30 MB per
image.

I would like to buffer them to the printer and go about my editing
while the images are printing. Printing them takes about 45 minutes.
Sometime longer if the prints are to be large. I googled for printer
buffers but the largest ones seem to be just 3 GB. I would like to
have at least 1 GB. Or up to 3 GB would be nice.

My 64 bit machine is dual processor quad cores? 8 GB of memory that
Photoshop Elements does not begin to fully utilize. I also could get a
small computer to have a hardware printer buffer.

Does anyone have any ideas or word of wisdom?

Thanks
Bob AZ

On Nov 3, 9:01*am, Bob AZ <rwatson...@aol.com> wrote:
> I use my 64 bit machine for photography. Lately I have been editng my
> images and then printing them in batches of 10. Usually 30 MB per
> image.
>
> I would like to buffer them to the printer and go about my editing
> while the images are printing. Printing them takes about 45 minutes.
> Sometime longer if the prints are to be large. I googled for printer
> buffers but the largest ones seem to be just 3 GB. I would like to
> have at least 1 GB. Or up to 3 GB would be nice.
>
> My 64 bit machine is dual processor quad cores? 8 GB of memory that
> Photoshop Elements does not begin to fully utilize. I also could get a
> small computer to have a hardware printer buffer.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas or word of wisdom?

I think some printers take a USB stick or maybe SDHC card - either as
a buffer boooster, or just to print from. So you'd save to USB stick,
and then transfer the stick to the printer. (I've found it
unsatisfactory to swap around SD cards to move data - better to treat
them as standardised memory upgrades and leave them in place.)