'Out of memory' Mac Pro

What are you doing when the messages appear?

 

How big is this document?

 

Not to mention what printer, and driver.

 

I'd be asking whether it's the computer or the printer that's out of memory. I haven't heard of Macs giving this message since MacOS 9. Maybe it's the printer complaining? Printers have memory too.

 

I've had this problem on my iMac G5, I don't think the issue is the computer RAM.

Ideally first check the printer works OK on another machine (which I imagine it will), and that a similar printer works OK on your machine.

The solution I was given (with Apple support on the phone for an hour) is to reinstall the OS with an Archive and Install, the printer has worked fine since.

 

Something is wrong. Probably not major, but I'd call Apple if you still are in your support window. Your machine should NOT be doing that.

 

it's likely the memory of the printer that's a problem. it may be too complex of a document. try making a PDF of it first and print that.

 

Open up a new document and copy everything over to the new document. Try that I had an issue with Illustrator, and i ordered more RAM and still had the issue. Afterwards I just copied and pasted into a new document and it worked totally fine.

I think its just a weird bug in some Adobe products.

 

Did you say that the folder of supporting graphics is 140 Mb??

You need to break this document down to smaller chapters, and.or resave the graphics at lower resolutions. My guess is that you have a whole bunch of 4 megapixel graphics that have been resized in InDesign to postage stamp size - creating images that are effectively 2,500 dpi.

Open those in Photoshop and save them at a suitable print resolution in the intended print size.