Print Productivity - Ricoh Aficio MP1350 User Manual

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Print Productivity

The print productivity results for the Ricoh Aficio MP1350
highlighted some opportunities for maximizing
productivity and reducing network bandwidth through
intelligent driver selection. On PDF documents, the PCL
driver faired badly compared to both the PostScript and
RPCS drivers in both output speed and network
bandwidth. The one exception to this PDF workflow was
the PDF quick reference document, which was printed in
booklet format with PCL. This proved to be more efficient
than RPCS and with PostScript not in the picture, due to
it not possessing an imposition feature.
On Microsoft Office applications PCL faired better with
lower bandwidth than PostScript across Word, Publisher,
and PowerPoint, yet it still fell behind in output
productivity, albeit more marginal. RPCS again proved to
be the most attractive proposition in productivity terms,
especially on the graphically intensive Publisher file. The
PCL struggled to output and PostScript failed. This
resulted in resetting the print job upon delivery at the
device upon multiple attempts.
With its higher functionality and now manageable
bandwidth, the processing power and productivity of
RPCS makes it a very compelling PDL to standardize for
the Ricoh Aficio MP1350.
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Bandwidth Comparison
50-page text based PDF
16-page magazine in PDF
6-page medium resolution graphic PDF
2-page high resolution PDF
32-page text-based PowerPoint
69-page graphic intensive PowerPoint
38-page form-intensive Word
document
33-page graphic intensive Publisher
document
11-page DWF Construction Plan in
600dpi Ledger
11-page DWF Construction Plan in
1200dpi Ledger
92-page PDF instruction manual
4-page 11"x17" Quick Reference
pamphlet printed in booklet layout
Ricoh Aficio MP1350
PCL PS RPCS
2.22 MB 1.51 MB 2.29 MB
35.3 MB 3.31 MB 4.52 MB
29.9 MB 1.14 MB 3.83 MB
7.51 MB 6.48 MB 0.99 MB
2.12 MB 6.06 MB 872 KB
10.8 MB 26.3 MB 8.74 MB
3.71 MB 13.4 MB 1.65 MB
60.8 MB 248 MB 27.8 MB
2.16 MB 12.0MB 25.7 MB
7.21 MB 12.3 MB 29.3 MB
5.30 MB 8.57 MB 12.6 MB
1.07 MB N/A 0.98 MB
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