How do I upload 16GB to an ftp server in hours instead of weeks?

[Dari]

A non-technical friend asked this question and I could not answer. She needs to have a book printed but the printer is in China.

 

[brainhulk]

find someone who has verizon FiOS.

or you could print it here and ship it overnight

 

[Dari]

find someone who has verizon FiOS.

or you could print it here and ship it overnight

Funny you mention FIOS. They have FIOS. The printer setup an FTP server but it's saying 2 weeks. I think the problem is their Golden Shield (firewall).

 

[bearxor]

Ship it on a couple of DVD's or a small flash drive?

 

[xanis]

I second the idea of loading it onto a flash drive and shipping it.

 

[Jeff7]

Send her this link.

 

[Newbian]

What kind of book takes 16 gb?

 

[Dari]

Ship it on a couple of DVD's or a small flash drive?

That's what I suggested. But there were some errors in the original transfer and they have to do it again. I don't know why she doesn't just send a flash drive again.

 

[Pardus]

What kind of book takes 16 gb?

1 Gigabyte could hold the contents of about 30 feet of books on a shelf.

 

[dabuddha]

Print it in Merica!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=768h3Tz4Qik

 

[jupiter57]

What kind of book takes 16 gb?

Only those in "DariLand"!

 

[waggy]

are you sure you don't mean 16 mb. that is more realistic for a book. 16 bg is a library.

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

800 page manual with tons of pictures each of which is supplied as a quad HD bitmap?

 

[xanis]

What kind of book takes 16 gb?

Actually, I'm wondering this as well. I've done a fair amount of print design and worked with a lot of printers, and I've never seen a file even come close to that. I think the largest file I ever sent to a printer was something like 2GB, and that included the INDD file and all of the packaged assets.

 

[mnewsham]

Wikipedia is in downloadable form (without pictures) and is only ~10GB so really, what the hell is this "book"?

 

[Juddog]

What kind of book takes 16 gb?

^^ That was my thought as well - 16 GB isn't a book, 16 GB is an entire volume of books (and given that she's sending to China, she's probably trying to steal some copywritten goods).

 

[waggy]

800 page manual with tons of pictures each of which is supplied as a quad HD bitmap?

even then doubtful. i had a few tech manuals that were detailed yet were roughly 400-900 megs.

I'm sure dari is confused on either the size or number of books.

 

[rudder]

even then doubtful. i had a few tech manuals that were detailed yet were roughly 400-900 megs.

I'm sure dari is confused on either the size or number of books.

Or whoever put the book together does not understand photoshop. 16Gb for a few pictures is easy if you jack up the DPI, size, and don't use compression... all of which are not needed when printing a book.

 

[jaedaliu]

That's what I suggested. But there were some errors in the original transfer and they have to do it again. I don't know why she doesn't just send a flash drive again.

Man, she's screwed. In the time it takes her to resend the book, her publishers have reverse engineered it and produced their own, cutting her out of the equation.

 

[TheVrolok]

even then doubtful. i had a few tech manuals that were detailed yet were roughly 400-900 megs.

I'm sure dari is confused on either the size or number of books.

Agreed. I have a 475 page Anatomy Atlas that has color pictures of nearly full page size on 95% of the pages and it's still only 214 megs.

 

[wirednuts]

transfer the file outside of 1996?

 

[Dari]

It's 16GB. The book is based on graffiti artwork of a particular artist. Everything is richly detailed. She used this scanner, I believe, to scan the images.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16838110005

 

[TheVrolok]

Ooohhhhh... they're scanned pages. Well, I'm sure you could convert those to less quality and then compress them and save a significant amount of space for negligible quality loss.

 

[Dari]

Ooohhhhh... they're scanned pages. Well, I'm sure you could convert those to less quality and then compress them and save a significant amount of space for negligible quality loss.

She bought the scanner and hired a professional scanner to scan the images. Now she's trying to send the images to the printer.

 

[zanejohnson]

what's the upstream bandwidth on the fios? maybe they have a lower teir package with like a 2mbps upstream or something