Luciano,

> Then I removed feathering and set "never smooth
> bitmaps" in options menu, then printing times returned to normal.
> I think this problem is related to the slow
> exporting of bitmaps other users have already
> experienced.

Wrong. It's your system. Or memory. Or hard drive.

When you print, bits and bytes are output to a file, which means written to disk (the SPOOLER). With a slow hard drive, this can take a very, very long time...Don't forget, with the extra information in the feathering and shadows and bevels the printer driver has to 'translate' more information.

If you have plenty of RAM, this process shouldn't be much longer than the export of a bitmap file.

Or the printer driver might not be the best one. Try to get the lastest from the EPSON website, even when the product has been discontinued, this doesn't mean they discontinued to tweak the printer driver.

Seems lots of users really DO have problems with the system configuration - the real trick is not to purchase a system, but to configure it...

Check the access speed of your hard drive first, the read/write speed of a certain file etc. I think the bottleneck on your system is located here.

ciao,
jens g.r. benthien