Sending to Inkjet Printer Slow

[karalyn.patrick]

Hi,

We have two printers, colour laser and colour inkjet. When I send a vector plot to the laser printer and inkjet printers they print immediately. When I send a raster print to the laser it also prints immediately. When I send a raster print to the inkjet it can takes about 5 minutes to start printing!

Anyone got any ideas why this may be and how to fix it??

Cheers,

Karalyn

[mlgatzke]

This might be your problem:
LaserJet printers have built-in memory and processors, so Revit can create the print file and dump it to the memory of the printer and let the printer's processor handle the print. Thus, printing begins immediately and opening the computer to begin working again. An inkjet printer has no such memory or processor. All the processing has to be done by the computer and held in the computer's memory. The computer does this processing internally, before the print is sent. This is probably what is slowing down your printing.

[karalyn.patrick]

This might be your problem:
LaserJet printers have built-in memory and processors, so Revit can create the print file and dump it to the memory of the printer and let the printer's processor handle the print. Thus, printing begins immediately and opening the computer to begin working again. An inkjet printer has no such memory or processor. All the processing has to be done by the computer and held in the computer's memory. The computer does this processing internally, before the print is sent. This is probably what is slowing down your printing.

Thanks Mike for your reply. I guess there is no way around this either. If we print to PDF first would that speed things up a bit? I'll try it. The quality from the inkjet is far superior so we need to find a way to speed up the process.

Thanks again.

Karalyn