Hoesly, Bret wrote:
Hello everyone,
Has anyone out there gone to quadplex printing, and if so was there any
impact on spool utilization (up or down)? Our clients have asked this
question, and we're not having much luck searching for an answer in the
short timeframe we have to try to find out. My initial thought is that
the answer is the good old standby of "it depends", but any information
would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Bret Hoesly
Systems Programmer - Mainframe
Telephone & Data Systems, Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
If you are talking about 4-up printing (as other believe you are) then
you will see no impact on spool at all. You still store the same number
of bytes. When printed the images are reduces the point size down small
enough to fit four logical pages on one physical page. If you have
5,000 characters on a logical page, you still have 5,000 charcters no
matter how many logical pages you print on a physical page.
As for print speed, well IIRC most of IBM's "mainframe" laser printers
are rated at impressions per minute, not pages and a impression is a
physical page, not a logical page. So if you are printing 4 up, the
four logical pages printed on one physical page would equate to one
image. However the images per minute is also based on "x"% coverage on
the page and I can't remember what the coverage percentage is. It might
be as low as 20%.
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