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

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Dari

Lifer
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 said:
find someone who has verizon FiOS.

or you could print it here and ship it overnight
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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).
 
Newbian said:
What kind of book takes 16 gb?
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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.
 
Wikipedia is in downloadable form (without pictures) and is only ~10GB so really, what the hell is this "book"? 😵
 
Skyclad1uhm1 said:
800 page manual with tons of pictures each of which is supplied as a quad HD bitmap?
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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.
 
waggy said:
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.
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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.
 
Dari said:
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.
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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.
 
waggy said:
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.
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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.
 
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.
 
TheVrolok said:
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.
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She bought the scanner and hired a professional scanner to scan the images. Now she's trying to send the images to the printer.
 
what's the upstream bandwidth on the fios? maybe they have a lower teir package with like a 2mbps upstream or something
 
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