I guess I should look in to that. So far on the 2 times I've had it, I just printed the file in parts.
-sc > -----Original Message----- > From: Terry Dickson [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 12:23 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Printing PDF files > > Yes but there is Generic compatible memory available for most of their > printers that is considerably cheaper and works in most cases. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 11:16 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Printing PDF files > > I recently found that the paper handling for my HP LaserJet would only > behave "properly"[1] with the PS driver, and not the PCL driver for some > esoteric cases. > > On the downside, I've since experienced a few "out of memory" errors on > complex print jobs... it appears that the postscript rasterizer is a bit more > memory intensive.[2] > > -sc > > [1] In this case a 4x6 piece of card stock fed thru the manual feed. The > "guide > tabs" on the tray force you to center the card stock when feeding, however > the PCL driver acted as if the stock was positioned where the top=left corner > of a piece of 8.5x11 paper would have been > > [2] And of course HP couldn't just use a standard DIMM module on their > printers... Noooo... it's some proprietary[3] RAM module > > [3] Pronounced "Ex-pen-sive". > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 11:52 AM > > To: NT System Admin Issues > > Subject: Re: Printing PDF files > > > > Yup. I've always found PS printers (or at least printers that have a > > good PS > > driver) to have better output than PCL, even if it is a bit slower. > > > > On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 07:47, Steven M. Caesare <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > Specifically “Display Postscript” IIRC. > > > > > > > > > > > > The NeXT cubes actually ran display postscript for their screen > > > render > > pipeline for exactly his sort of reason… output device agnosticism. > > > > > > > > > > > > -sc > > > > > > > > > > > > From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] > > > Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 10:44 AM > > > To: NT System Admin Issues > > > Subject: Re: Printing PDF files > > > > > > > > > > > > In addition, PDFs (for text, at least, as opposed to embedded > > bitmaps/jpegs) are internally encoded in PostScript, so the > > print/display drivers are tiny PS interpreters. > > > > > > This actually is in the name of portability between platforms - > > > especially > > *nix. > > > > > > Kurt > > > > > > On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 07:24, Steven M. Caesare > > > <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > Indeed. > > > > > > > > > > > > PDF’s are basically rasterized within the PDF program itself, and > > > the > > resulting bitmap is sent to the printer. > > > > > > > > > > > > Word, etc… send the text/font info to the printer, which rasterizes > > > it as part > > of the printing process. Vector graphics are passed tot eh printer as > > well, altho bitmap graphics has to be sent as a bitmap blob. > > > > > > > > > > > > The end result tends to be longer print times and larger jobs… all > > > in the > > name “portability”. > > > > > > > > > > > > -sc > > > > > > > > > > > > From: Chris Orovet [mailto:[email protected]] > > > Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 10:20 AM > > > > > > To: NT System Admin Issues > > > Subject: RE: Printing PDF files > > > > > > > > > > > > When a pdf spools a 5 meg file can easily become a 200-250 meg file. > > > No > > matter what version of adobe ive used this has always been the case. > > > > > > Here is a 79 kb file that I printed as a comparison: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > It blew up to almost 400kb amost 5 times the size of the original > > > doc. I did a > > paperless conversion for my company a few years back. All docs were > > converted to pdf or word. Word docs had no effect on my printers or > > print servers. 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