Ricoh 1022, PXLMONO and PDF's

[Gil Freund]

> > except for the following - PDF files created by a scanner=20
> PDF created by scanner? Most likely scanner will build a PDF wrapper
> around a raw TIFF image. It's more like a raw image file.=20
> On the other hand, the Ghostscript-buildin-pxlmono driver has a track
> record of not able to handle image well. It will create very large
> files.=20
> So, printing this kind of files will be slow.=20
>
> If you have a printer with optional Postscript, it might be faster (at
> least it will not consume that much CPU power to convert (raster)PDF
> into PCL-XL.

It is much faster on PS printers, but the consumables are cheaper on the Ricoh....

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cups-bounces at easysw.com [mailto:cups-bounces at easysw.com] On Behalf
> Of Gil Freund
> Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 1:09 PM
> To: cups at easysw.com
> Subject: [cups.general] Ricoh 1022, PXLMONO and PDF's
>
> Hi,
>
> I am having a strange issue with a Ricoh 1022.
>
> The Environment:
> CUPS 1.2.7 with Samba 3.0.24 on Debian 4.0 Etch
> Windows XP and 2003 Clients
> Ricoh 1022 MFC using PXLmono generated PPD
>
> All types of documents (Office, PDF, etc) seem to print without a hitch,
> except for the following - PDF files created by a scanner (mainly by
> Ricoh's scanning software). Those take about 5-7 minutes to start
> printing, while the fomatic process seems to hog a lot of CPU.
>
> Using the windows driver on a raw queue works fine (but not the
> preferable solution).
>
> Any pointers welcome
>
> Gil
>
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