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1 About this Application Note
This Application Note describes the installation procedure for the Diskeeper® program.
2 About Diskeeper
The Diskeeper software prevents file fragmentation that mainly occurs when a job is
R Ped directly from the Caldera/ColorGate to the Barak/UVStar printer.
The Barak/UVStar computers run on the Windows operating system. This system
cannot allocate space for the flow of the complete R Ped file. Therefore it continuously
saves parts of the file in a number of sectors that are not necessarily adjacent to each
other.
When the R Ped file has been completely transferred, the result is thousands of
fragmented files, scattered over the hard drive. Consequently, as the printer prints at a
speed of 2.2 m/sec, the computer cannot collect the dispersed data at such a rate.
Job fragmentation is the main cause of the Carriage pausing at the end of a pass,
during printing.
Using the Diskeeper program should eliminate this phenomenon.