is it every file or just a certain one? Full color or just mono? Are you sending the file directly to the unit or having is spooled or saved in the HD?
muleyman
Posts: 81 | Location: Canada | Registered: February 08, 2011
Make that 3-4 minutes. Full color, 50 page doc with thumbnails ,default setting for printing (spool and print immediately). KPDL Driver. Send and receive lights will flash for 3-4 minutes then print light will flash. I have another TA 300 that when printing a full colored(layered ?)MSW doc in KPDL takes 1-2 min ,in KPD XL 5-10 sec. The MSW doc has a single color fading background. Any thoughts?
Using KPDL per Tech support.According to Tech support KPDL will give the best output and its the default driver.Printing is slow, copying ok....Sorry, I forgot to add I also reformatted the HDD.
KPDL is the slowest printing, Just test any document kpdl vs Xl
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Originally posted by George: Using KPDL per Tech support.According to Tech support KPDL will give the best output and its the default driver.Printing is slow, copying ok....Sorry, I forgot to add I also reformatted the HDD.
Posts: 294 | Location: CA | Registered: November 07, 2003
Print (rendering) speed is directly related to document complexity. I presume you're not saying it prints at this speed with a basic text document with a picture or two occasionally.
Some PDF documents are multi-layered to allow for future editing. 'Flattening' them will make them print faster. Also the resolution of the original PDF may be much higher (Acrobat supports massive resolutions capable of printing billboard size documents if you want - but a 600 DPI 8.5x11 document doesn't need that much detail). Reducing the output DPI will increase speed.
I have set the spooler setting on the driver to wait until the last page is done before sending it to the printer. That reduces the overall printing time on the printer if it is a complex job for the computer to render (look at the print job on the computer to see if this applies - if it leaves the print queue on say a 4 page job before the first page prints on the copier it won't really help.)
It would really be nice if there was a way to have all print jobs render to the hard drive first and just print it out at full speed when it's done rendering. Then users could walk up and make copies or faxes could print out while the job is ripped in the background.
Also it would be nice to have an option in the KX driver to have the host computer rip the job to native prescribe (or whatever) so the print system wouldn't really do any thinking if the host computer were faster. (I know this is a throwback to the old Print System 'G' thinking, but I think newer computers probably could rip everything faster than the print system anyway and it would utilize underutilized computer hardware.)
Scott, What is the best way to set spool setting in a server vs workstation - do you set both to spooling ?
printing from a document box is rending the job to the hardrive
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Originally posted by Scotty: Print (rendering) speed is directly related to document complexity. I presume you're not saying it prints at this speed with a basic text document with a picture or two occasionally.
Some PDF documents are multi-layered to allow for future editing. 'Flattening' them will make them print faster. Also the resolution of the original PDF may be much higher (Acrobat supports massive resolutions capable of printing billboard size documents if you want - but a 600 DPI 8.5x11 document doesn't need that much detail). Reducing the output DPI will increase speed.
I have set the spooler setting on the driver to wait until the last page is done before sending it to the printer. That reduces the overall printing time on the printer if it is a complex job for the computer to render (look at the print job on the computer to see if this applies - if it leaves the print queue on say a 4 page job before the first page prints on the copier it won't really help.)
It would really be nice if there was a way to have all print jobs render to the hard drive first and just print it out at full speed when it's done rendering. Then users could walk up and make copies or faxes could print out while the job is ripped in the background.
Also it would be nice to have an option in the KX driver to have the host computer rip the job to native prescribe (or whatever) so the print system wouldn't really do any thinking if the host computer were faster. (I know this is a throwback to the old Print System 'G' thinking, but I think newer computers probably could rip everything faster than the print system anyway and it would utilize underutilized computer hardware.)
Posts: 294 | Location: CA | Registered: November 07, 2003
Underutilized Computer hardware, ROFL I wish, most of our customers seem to have 6 year old windows xp machines that barely function with the new Windows Office. Then they try to print a complex 11x17 full color multi-layer PDF that nearly freezes the computer. "Why does it take so long to print?" ARGH!!
