Printing paper quality images remotely

I need to print images from data sets which are quite large. Consequently, my local computer does not have enough RAM or processing power to complete the job.

The problem is that I cannot find a way to efficiently print the images. I can choose to work without x forwarding, but then the printed images are stuck at a low resolution. If I activate x forwarding, then even if I turn off image ouput, there seems to be a large amount of talk between the two computers resulting in extremely slow performance.

Is there a way to effectively print high resolution images remotely without swapping large amounts of data?

Answer 1

[Jason Ross]

Have you tried using VNC to do all the processing at the remote machine? This way, only the desktop graphics need to go over the wire.