postscript vs. RPCS

Some good questions:

In a PC environment, I always set up the RPCS driver first. I then sell or tell them on the ease of use and the ablility set up pre-configured print commands. Remember that the RPCS driver takes a little longer to see the printer on the network.

I only use PCL 6 or 5 if the customer requires it. Sometimes the PCL 6 or 5 will do a better job with certain appplications.

I have only used the PSIII for MACS or a PC user who is printing comps from a PC. Another situation is if the are printing EPS files (Encapsulated Post Script).

Thats all I have, maybe someone else can tell us about the print speed for PS

Art

True Adobe Postscript will be the best driver to use in environments where high graphic quality is important. Anyone doing some form of desktop publishing be it PageMaker, Quark or even the latest version of Publisher probably would prefer ps over any other pdl. PS uses mathematical formulas (vector) to format a print job, whereas pcl sends "raw" data to be rasterized into dots.

Since pdf's are from Adobe, the claim is that ps prints pdf's faster. I've printed pdf's utilizing rpcs and I really can't tell the difference speed wise.

Postscript3 actually supports direct printing of PDFs, which means you don't even have to open the file and print it through the driver. You could simply download the PDF to the printer and the PS3 interpreter can render the PDF.

Cool feature, almost no application in the real world though.

As other people said, PS is the way to go when quality is paramount. PCL/RPCS is best in a normal office environment.

Customers printing from Macs require PS to be able to print. Customers printing from Quark, Photoshop, Illustrator, Pagemaker or similar graphics programs will prefer Postscript over the other drivers.

On the color side there is a HUGE difference in the color quality between printing PC and PCL/RPCS. PS is definately the way to go when you want quality color reproduction.

thanks for the info!

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Originally posted by JasonR:
Cool feature, almost no application in the real world though.

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Of course I would say that yesterday and today I meet with a customer who wants to do this =).

They are using a document imaging system that stores docs in PDF format, they'd like to be able to print 50-60 of these at once and don't want to have to open each one seperatley and print them. With PS3 you can just copy the PDF files to the copier and they all print out, takes about a minute to send them all, much better than the 10-15 minutes it took to open and print each one.

Guess there are some applications for it afterall!

What's the difference between printing using postscript and PCL5c on the 2232/2238? Quality is the concern.

-=Mike=-

On the color side there is a HUGE difference in the color quality between printing PC and PCL/RPCS. PS is definately the way to go when you want quality color reproduction.

Some Ricoh guys were in my office last week and mentioned they had a document that outlined which driver gave better results from which application. They said they'd get me a copy, if they do I'll post it here.

But I agree, PS is the way to go for best quality, especially color quality.