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recommend printer for graphic designer... - bazookaman - 07-11-2011
we currently have a Ricoh Aficio MPC2500 office copier, scanner, printer thingy. And it is SLOOOOOOOOW. I cannot even print to it from my Mac...unless the file is sufficiently small. Forget printing from an Adobe app. I am guessing b/c it does not have the Postscript option installed. Anyway I print from a VM in Parallels and it works...ok. The PS option for this machine is very spendy and we don't really want to throw more money at this old printer anyway.
So i thought perhaps if I could find a good printer printer. Not a multi-function thing, that would be better. I want a laser. Postscript. Needs to print tabloid. Full color obviously. Fast. My first thought was a xerox 7000 series of some kind. I've always had good luck with them. But I'm open to suggestions.
Re: recommend printer for graphic designer... - Z - 07-11-2011
We have an Aficio C6000 and it is pretty speedy on the windows end of things, all things considered, though the default windows xp driver leaves a bit to be desired speed wise, if you need to change settings...
Re: recommend printer for graphic designer... - bazookaman - 07-11-2011
I just printed 2 12 page 11x17 pdfs and 1 2 page 11x17 pdf. Full color. I started at around 12:45. It finished around 2:15.
Re: recommend printer for graphic designer... - kj4btkljv - 07-11-2011
Something doesn't sound right. How much RAM does the machine have, do you know? Is that machine under a lease agreement (many are), and you might be able to upgrade it, or replace it easily.
We've got 2 Ricoh machines in our office - an Aficio 2238C, and an MPC4000. Both of them are really fast - the paper is sitting in the output tray before I can physically walk over to the printer.
Jeff
Re: recommend printer for graphic designer... - bazookaman - 07-11-2011
I'm pretty sure it's stock. Whatever that is. It's not much. OTOH, it doesn't hold a lot.
Don't get me wrong. I think this is a great OFFICE printer. It scans, it's networked, it emails, it stores documents. But when I hit it with one of my 150 or 200 mb PDF or PSD or AI or ID files, it runs home to momma. All of which is postscript stuff. Which it doesn't support. Which has got to be an issue. I am using open source drivers on the mac side b/c there are no native drivers. On the PC side there are, but again...not postscript.
Edit: Just checked the settings. It's got 1024mb of RAM and not sure of the HD. Its got around 17gb on it and it says it's 80% free.
Re: recommend printer for graphic designer... - Buck - 07-11-2011
Definitely sounds like RAM. We have ours (not sure of model nr) maxed out and it works fine and fast from Mac or PC.
Re: recommend printer for graphic designer... - bazookaman - 07-11-2011
Well, it's got a gb of ram. I'm nto sure how much more it would take.
I do know that it will NOT work on a Mac...officially. I've verified that with other users online. They have the same printer with NO postscript option so the "official" OSX drivers do not work. You HAVE to use open source drivers which are slow slow slow. They work. But are slow. Did I mention they were slow? Which is why I print from my virtual XP install. It literally runs rings around printing from the Mac.
Re: recommend printer for graphic designer... - Speedy - 07-12-2011
Reason enough to junk it.
bazookaman wrote:
I do know that it will NOT work on a Mac...officially.