HP Z6100 and Onyx RIP - printing SLOW!

[daveh]

NEED HELP with Onyx Rip v7.1, try to install hp z6100ps driver,but get (Error#4 Unsupported printer HP Design Jet Z6100 6o" printer offline. also the printer DLL cannot be loaded. Thanks, Dave

[focalfire]

Hi there Jon

Sorry but I didnt see if turning 2 way communication off worked? The company I work for has 3 Z6100s on the network (Running Gigabit) and have the slow running & head pause problem.

When more of the printers are in use at the same time the problem escalates. Im happy with the colour & quality and all profiles are pretty much nailed down now.

Any thoughts mate? anyone else also.

Thanks!

Just joined, seems like a great site!

[jonkovach]

Well, turns out what it was was the fact that I am running high quality profiles, with stochastic dot patterns, as opposed to a contone dot pattern, which would print much faster. However, much less control. I like having control of my profiles.

[rbailleu]

Originally Posted by focalfire

Hi there Jon

Sorry but I didnt see if turning 2 way communication off worked? The company I work for has 3 Z6100s on the network (Running Gigabit) and have the slow running & head pause problem.

When more of the printers are in use at the same time the problem escalates. Im happy with the colour & quality and all profiles are pretty much nailed down now.

Any thoughts mate? anyone else also.

I assume you are running 1 rip for all 3. or 3 separate rips? sorry i am not familiar with these.
if its one rip you need a server with 2 core 2 quad. raid 5 15k scsi and a lot of ram.
either way you need to segregate the network. either with vlans or the easier way to run crossover cables and second network cards in the rips. if its one rip then get one of the server cards with 4 ethernet ports on it. run a separate set of ip addresses on each one. just my thoughts on something to try.

[prepressing]

You may want to look into a Harlequin RIP. You can demo the HP Z6100 RIP from the following link:

Digital Proofing RIP Software for Epson, HP - Proofer Software for Epson, HP

If you are using three of these printers, you may be able to get by with one RIP computer but I would recommend three separate RIPs with three separate computers. If you need ultimate throughput speed then this is the way to go.

You may want to try the following: Setup the RIP software to output to shared windows printers. To do this you would need to setup a shared Windows printer for each of the HP Z6100 printers. Next, you will need configure the RIP with different setups so that each setup prints out to the appropriate shared Windows printer. This way, the RIP is outputting only a file to the shared printer and your RIP is only tied up for the time it takes to write the file to disk and output the file. You would not have to wait on the printer to start or stop printing before you can send out another job to the other printers.

[andyplowman]

We supply Original HP inks for the Z6100 at £135. You can contact me on a.plowman@sourcemedia.co.uk if this is a saving to you.