Taskalfa 250 slow processing

[daprex]

Hi i have a question about the printspeed of the 250, when printing several jobs to the printer it stops for about 10 - 15 seconds between each job, for example invoices, when the job starts it prints att the pages of that job quickly but when the next job comes it stops and the display says processing job. I have upgraded the firmware to the lastest version, tested the different languages in the driver kpdl, pcl xl and pcl5, set the driver to b&w and also preset the drum for b&w jobs u486.

Its running in a windows 2003 enviroment.

[n25an]

windows 2003

Hi i have a question about the printspeed of the 250, when printing several jobs to the printer it stops for about 10 - 15 seconds between each job, for example invoices, when the job starts it prints att the pages of that job quickly but when the next job comes it stops and the display says processing job. I have upgraded the firmware to the lastest version, tested the different languages in the driver kpdl, pcl xl and pcl5, set the driver to b&w and also preset the drum for b&w jobs u486.

Its running in a windows 2003 enviroment.

is the driver on the server?

is it shared?

if it is shared, do you have it set to spool?

how big are these jobs?

have you upgraded copier memory?

have you installed optional hard drive?

I had a similar issue with the km 3035 but the customer refused to upgrade memory so huge print jobs would have problems...

if its small print jobs then your network might be having problems with the network signal degrading too rapidly...

ping the copier's ip... if the ttl is low then you have network problems...

insert a laptop into the copiers position and connect the network cables... then ftp 10 mb document to it... if the document comes through corrupted then you have a network problem...

let me know how it goes...

[daprex]

hi and thanks for the answer the jobs are a few hundred kbs (invoices without any logos), and the spooler is set to buffer the prints and start print them immidietly. The printer has 2 gb memory, I will try to send some larger files to it tomorrow, it doesnt seem to have any network latency problems, ping time is less than 1ms.

[n25an]

buffering or print immediately

hi and thanks for the answer the jobs are a few hundred kbs (invoices without any logos), and the spooler is set to buffer the prints and start print them immidietly. The printer has 2 gb memory, I will try to send some larger files to it tomorrow, it doesnt seem to have any network latency problems, ping time is less than 1ms.

if you spool... then spool then print jobs...

if you print immediately... then there will be a lag... saying processing...

this is most evident when the driver is kpdl

pc xl works the best...

if you can get a kx driver in their with pc xl it should work even better...

[ExOceMan]

I have had some pretty major PDF printing issues with PCLXL. We had a client that would print and the machine would print continuously, until being hard rebooted (switched-off). I had them start using KPDL and never again did this come up.

[vikingmita]

if you're lucky, the generated print file splits every invoice into one job, i.e. 200 customers=200 jobs. have a customer with exactly the same, although on km-8030. transfers/processes 2-3 pages, stops for job nr.2, processes, stops for job nr. 3, etc, etc. easy to see the 'counting' on the 8030 both on pages and actual jobs. so try a big job straight from laptop (some 200-300 pdf-manual?) just to veryfy that.

[daprex]

they are different jobs if a print a large job with lots of pages the job will be fast its just when it starts a new job it processes for a few seconds. I compared it to the old hp 4700 (16ppm compared to the taskalfas 25 ppm) and sent the same 7 invoices to them, some are several pages long the hp did dit in 35 sec and the taskalfa in one minute.