Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server version 6.0 - Manual (Page 105)

System Guide 8- 7
Hints and Tips
soon as the printer finishes the IQ adjustment it prints all of the
RIPped pages and catch up with the printer.
Job printing hints
The DC 6060 print engine cycles down on certain operations such
as on tray/bank switches or between jobs. Each cycle may take
10-40 seconds to complete before the print engine is ready to print
again.
To avoid unnecessary print engine cycling, you can perform the
following steps:
• Disable finishing, slip-sheets and offset stacking.
• Disable banner sheets when making multiple copies of a job.
• Avoid media tray switches by constructing the job to use only a
single size, color, and weight of paper and by ensuring before
running a job that the currently active tray has enough media
loaded to print the entire job.
Skipped pitches
To stop the cycle of skipped pitches and cycle the print engine
down, perform one of the following to improve the overall job
performance:
1. Process the job in N-1 order rather than 1-N order. This forces
the job to be completely RIPed before the print engine is
started up. When the print engine starts it consumes pages at
60 ppm until all pages are printed.
2. The user could pause the printer (the green button on the
Xerox FreeFlow Print Server interface) until a large number of
pages in the job have been RIPed. If the user then resumes
the printer at the right time (some time before the whole job is
RIPed), the print engine prints all of the queued pages and the
controller simultaneously finishes RIPing the remainder of the
job. To do this successfully, the user needs to watch and
compute the rate that the Xerox FreeFlow Print Server is
RIPing at. If you know how many pages are in the job, then
knowing that the printer generates paper at 60 ppm, you can
compute how far from the end of the job to release the printer
so that RIP and print finish at the same time.
PCI channel interface PWB trace capture
Load the PCI Channel Interface PWB Trace command when
software is installed and the PCI Channel Interface PWB is
detected. This procedure is usually performed at the request of
Software Engineering or as part of a SPAR package.