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The only thing I know about Postscript and printing is that the files are huge text files and every print shop I’ve been to, uses it.
So… I have a little A4 (2300) Minolta printer which does not use Postscript. It prints quickly enough and the output is photographic quality. It suffers from an ever so slight colour cast to blue which I compensate for, before committing to print and it doesn’t do full bleed prints.
I just bought a Magicolor 7300 (SRA3) printer which runs Postscript. The first few prints have surprisingly correct colour and image placement but… The 248 Meg file took 13 minutes before it printed. The time to print only gets worse from here on because that file was an A4 document. When I place 2 of them on a page with full bleed and crop marks… Nearly half an hour to print the first page and this 21 "full colour" pages per minute printer starts churning out 4 pages per minute! Will someone wake me when the 3000 brochures actually get finished! Then maybe I can do the 10,000 business cards and 750 Postcards for the rest of the job!!!
Can anyone with some Postscript knowledge tell me if these long delays in getting data into a printer are commonplace? I’d also like someone to comment on the advertised print speed of 21 pages per minute (A4 speed, I’m told now) as opposed to the actual print speed of 4 pages per minute. Does anyone else use a colour laser in a digital print shop?
It may well be going back to Minolta before the end of the week if they can’t make it perform. It’s on Ethernet, by the way. Photoshop output to this printer is IMHO better than most inkjet printers. My only issue is the God awful speed of the thing!
Cheers,
Doug
So… I have a little A4 (2300) Minolta printer which does not use Postscript. It prints quickly enough and the output is photographic quality. It suffers from an ever so slight colour cast to blue which I compensate for, before committing to print and it doesn’t do full bleed prints.
I just bought a Magicolor 7300 (SRA3) printer which runs Postscript. The first few prints have surprisingly correct colour and image placement but… The 248 Meg file took 13 minutes before it printed. The time to print only gets worse from here on because that file was an A4 document. When I place 2 of them on a page with full bleed and crop marks… Nearly half an hour to print the first page and this 21 "full colour" pages per minute printer starts churning out 4 pages per minute! Will someone wake me when the 3000 brochures actually get finished! Then maybe I can do the 10,000 business cards and 750 Postcards for the rest of the job!!!
Can anyone with some Postscript knowledge tell me if these long delays in getting data into a printer are commonplace? I’d also like someone to comment on the advertised print speed of 21 pages per minute (A4 speed, I’m told now) as opposed to the actual print speed of 4 pages per minute. Does anyone else use a colour laser in a digital print shop?
It may well be going back to Minolta before the end of the week if they can’t make it perform. It’s on Ethernet, by the way. Photoshop output to this printer is IMHO better than most inkjet printers. My only issue is the God awful speed of the thing!
Cheers,
Doug
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