[CQ] Sharp MX-2610N printing a few pages at a time..

[JayGass360]

Sharp MX-2610. I have a customer that prints from both MACs and PCs. Machine is on their router and all their devices connected via Wifi. The copier and router is upstairs and most of the PCs and MACs are one floor down. Drivers are PS. When they print a large PDF File like 40 or above MB file the copier prints few st a time, pauses then print ,then pause. I did take their file and replicated the issues on 2 of my demo room machines and same issues. One thing I noticed when at the customers location even when this issues printing I have the Print queue open and the job is still spooling and processing when the machine is printing. Is there a setting I can change on the Adobe acrobat application or if or any on the copier side? Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated

[driving lots of miles]

Re: Sharp MX-2610N printing a few pages at a time..

The way I understand PDF Files is that if you set the PDF file to print as image the copier does not have to sort through all the changes that were made to the file as it was created and it should print faster.

[Dark Helmet]

Re: Sharp MX-2610N printing a few pages at a time..

Ive run into this before with a customer printing publisher documents. The file it's self was only 2 megs but they print 500 of it and for what ever reason the print driver makes 2 megs x 500. Big file. Customer was using a 10/100 switch. They were taking a huge file and trying to ram it down a small tunnel. Copier was printing faster than the rate the file was coming in.

Hooking any thing up wireless vs wired is crap! If possible get the machine at least wired to the router. If the copier has a poor wireless link there will be lots of data loss slowing the process down even more as the data packet has to be resent.

Couple things to try.
Hook up your laptop direct and go for the 1000mb connection assuming your laptop has a gigabit NIC. See if that prints faster.

My customer refused to upgrade their switch so my work around was to send the file to the document filing folder as 1 copy and then they walk up to the machine and tell it they want 500.

As posted above printing as an image should also help. I think the computer takes longer to spool the file as it's doing more of the work but it should be less for the copier to do.

[JayGass360]

Issue Fixed

Hey all I believe the issue is fixed. What I did in the PDF file I went to File Print> Advance> Color management and by default it was Adobe Determine color. I had changed it to allow Printer to determine Color. After these changes it printed at fast speed...