HP 3000CP - Manual (Page 198)

Reconfiguring Your Printer
Improving Throughput in the HP DesignJet 3500CP printer
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Improving Throughput in the HP DesignJet 3500CP
printer
There are many factors that affect the performance of your printer. Shown below are
some settings that you may change in order to get the best performance.
Background printing (Macintosh only)
Using background printing penalizes the performance of the printer, the less
powerful your Macintosh is, the longer the sending time will be.
Queueing
If queueing is set to ON, the first file to be printed will take longer than if queuing is
turned off, but the subsequent jobs will be faster with queuing ON because then the
incoming jobs can be processed while the previous one is being printed. This means
that if you send only one job and you want to get it printed as fast as possible, it is
better to set queueing to OFF.
See page 7-5, Managing Pages not yet Printed (the Queue)
Ink Emulation
Using ink emulation increases the time to process a file because all of the colors in
the file are converted.
To improve speed, use ink emulation at the setting Enhanced Native; see page 9-2,
Selecting the Ink Emulation Mode.
File coding
Many applications allow you to use Binary or ASCII encoding to send the images.
Select Binary whenever possible, since Binary is a lot faster than ASCII in sending
the images to the printer.