Re: AFP/PCL Speed

Thanks to all for their suggestions.

I think I have three possibilities...

* I can increase the line speed to the remote locations (local LAN
locations are fine).

* I can move to IPDS and save the overlay in the printer. I think this
will cost between $500 and $1000 per printer.

* I can store the overlay as a PCL macro on the printer. I don't know
much about this technique (yet) but I'm checking it out.

Anyone know of other possibilities?

On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 13:49:02 -0800, "Pat Barber"
<mboceanside@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> Yes....convert your printer to IPDS. HPT is gonna be a
> slowwwwww deal with AFP type stuff....
> 
> IPDS & AFP go together.....
> 
> 
> michaelr_41@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> > I converted an application to use AFP rather than a vendor's product. It
> > works fine...except for the speed. It's unbearably slow when printing to
> > a remote location. These are HP 4100 printers - no IPDS. So, the iSeries
> > is using HPT to convert from AFP to PCL (I believe). Is there anything I
> > can do to increase the throughput?
> > 
> > TIA...
> > 
> 
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