How to increase printing speed of Large PDF files, 2000+ pages

[emujo2]

Had a customer scream at me because "the HPs spit out these docs in seconds..your POS take 2-3 min per page"..Sure enough, watching the printspooler I could see a 2KB file spool up to 15 MB during the RIP process..and indeed each page took 2-3 min.. Turns out this was crystal reports and the file was in a true PS format..The HPs were running with standard PS drivers..Once I swapped over to the KM PS drivers they were actually printing faster than the HPs..File format is everything...E

[progoffice]

The print spooler is your friend when it comes to showing customers why something is taking a long time to print. If slow spooling is an issue, I've suggested to customers (if possible) to try and print large documents directly from a thumb drive. In my testing, the same large job will print a lot faster. I realize this is not a solution, but it quickly proves that the bottleneck is not the printer.

[allan]

What if you submit the PDF straight to the machine? You can use PSWC or a hot folder.

[allan]

Works well if you need to do setup for pre printer forms.
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[emujo2]

I'm not sure what good commenting on a 3 year old post is, but that being said....It helps to be familiar with the rastorization process where the vectored image and text data is converted to a bitmap image that the printer can understand. This is done on the workstation or server side and is what you are seeing when the spool file size starts to increase, in many cases becoming 10 X as large as the original file. This is where learning about page printer settings, print as image, PCL or PS drivers, and configuring the print file itself come in handy. Once the entire chunk of data is sent to the machine it should be printing at its rated speed, but all the standard user sees is a blinking data light and 2 min wait per page, of course the IT rep is always going to say it's the printer. E