Xerox 6180N FreeFlow® Print Server System Guide - Page 129

Job printing hints, Skipped pitches

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Hints and Tips 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. System Guide 9- 7

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System Guide
9-7
Hints and Tips
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.