Intermate i5, AS/400, iSeries manual Performance, Printing, Processing

Performance

Printing

InterForm400® generates very compact PCL code.

You will notice that using large images can increase the time to download the merged spool files to printers.

If printing multiple pages the system makes extensive use of PCL macros, which are stored in the printer and called for all pages in the spool entry. If a paper jam occurs, and the printer loose its resources, the macros will be placed in the printer again as the spool entry is released again.

When using imported PC forms (PCL files, see page 325) it will be the application producing the PCL file which is decisive for the size. Imported PCL files will also be loaded as PCL macros as described above.

Processing

It is difficult to calculate the exact processor time consumption of the system.

In general the most process demanding operations of the system is to calculate right adjustment of proportional spaced fonts, and complex conditional search routines.

Adding overlay elements like frames, lines, images and PCL files requires a minimum of processing.

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If the printer is PCL5 capable (most are nowadays) then create only barcode soft fonts for PCL5 (instead of PCL4). They will print out quicker.

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When importing TIF images then convert the file to PCL5. It will print out quicker and

can then also be used for PDF output. If the imported image needs to be reversed, then reverse when importing it instead of reversing it in overlay design.

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