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Printing in a Production environment (60k+)

We routinely get CD/DVD's full of pdf's that clients want a paper copy(s) of. Sometimes its a couple of very large pdf's and sometimes it's hundreds of folders with thousands of small pdfs.

I'm desperately seeking a way to print jobs as large as 60,000 pdf's at one time.. fast. we have a pair of sharp 6201n's and it's extremely slow (10-15pages b&w) when printing pdfs, even worse with color.

What's the bottleneck here? The print server is a new dual xeon, windows xp, 15k rpm sas drives, 4 gigs of ram (or whatever max ram in xp 32bit it). Currently just opening in acrobat and selecting print. using the device supplied PS drivers.

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60,000 PDFs... that's a lot. It's going to be "slow" in some way no matter what you do.

There are a lot of factors that will affect printing speed. For example, printing plain text files is going to be quicker than printing graphically rich brochures, or printing a document that only uses one font is going to be quicker than printing a document that uses ten different fonts.

So you need to look at the actual documents you're printing as well as your hardware configuration to find the bottlenecks.

Are you manually opening each of these PDF files in Acrobat and printing each of them? If so, then that's a huge bottleneck right there. There are SDKs available that will allow you to quickly write an application that scans a folder for any PDF files and then prints them -- without needing to open the PDF files. That will save time and money.

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