Constant pausing on book printing

[Brunswick]

Hi guys we are printing a 200pp double sided document for wiro binding all on 100gsm laser. it is a 19000 run double sided but the machine ricoh c7100 keeps pausing after every 3-4 sheets.
We are getting approx. 7 sheets per minute SRA3 double sided help please...

 

[AP90]

Is there a mix of color and B&W pages in the document? If so, most machines will pause to change the fusing temperature, image quality, ect. There should be a "productivity mode" you could turn on that might help alleviate this, but if there is a lot of mixed mono and full color then there's not much you can do.

On our 1000i, it will pause a lot when a job with mixed mono and full color will start, but once it gets warmed up and running, 4-5 booklets, it seems to run at a pretty consistent speed.

 

[PrintIT]

This doesn't help the original poster about the Ricoh, but on the Xerox 1000 there's an NVM setting that helps with the mixed BW/Color speed issue.
It's NVM 700-921. Default value should be 2. Set it to 0 for the mixed color jobs, and it won't go into the image adjustment as much. Just set it back to 2 when you're done.

 

[Craig]

Try processing and holding the job in the RIP. Kinda sounds like the engine is faster than the RIP.

 

[kdw75]

Again, this probably doesn't help you much, but it may help someone else.

When we got our C75, it would have long pauses running books, and it turned out that a firmware update helped reduce the delay greatly. I would contact support, maybe it is a software issue. I am assuming it isn't waiting on the RIP.

The production specialist who advised us to buy our 2100, touted the fact that not even the 1000 could match the 2100 on mixed B&W and color speed. The 2100 runs them at something like 90% of rated speed. My understanding is that the new 1000i is able to match the 2100.

 

[Craig]

The specialist is wrong, changing an NVM setting solves that on the 1000. We do it all the time.

 

[kdw75]

The specialist is wrong, changing an NVM setting solves that on the 1000. We do it all the time.

Is there any down side to leaving it that way on the 1000?

 

[Craig]

Not that we found, though we switch it back on long 4/4 runs to be safe.