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.
Ricoh Aficio MP1350
Bandwidth Comparison
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2.22 MB | 1.51 MB | 2.29 MB | ||
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35.3 MB | 3.31 MB | 4.52 MB | ||
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29.9 MB | 1.14 MB | 3.83 MB | ||
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7.51 MB | 6.48 MB | 0.99 MB | ||
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2.12 MB | 6.06 MB | 872 KB | ||
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10.8 MB | 26.3 MB | 8.74 MB | ||
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3.71 MB | 13.4 MB | 1.65 MB | ||
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60.8 MB | 248 MB | 27.8 MB | ||
document | ||||
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2.16 MB | 12.0MB | 25.7 MB | ||
600dpi Ledger | ||||
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7.21 MB | 12.3 MB | 29.3 MB | ||
1200dpi Ledger | ||||
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5.30 MB | 8.57 MB | 12.6 MB | ||
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1.07 MB | N/A | 0.98 MB | ||
pamphlet printed in booklet layout | ||||
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