Re: Anzio Win with Print Wizard ROCKS – we can make money with this one.

[Bob Rasmussen]

On Sun, 7 Oct 2007, Dennis Malen wrote:

> You answered my UNIX question, I think.
> 
> How is the speed in printing. filePro printing is extremely fast. Does Anzio
> slow the process down, speed it up or does it remain the same?
> 
> I looked at Anzio two years ago, but I needed to have the form reside in
> Windows or download the pcl file from windows in order to print through to
> UNIX. I may be completely incorrect about the procedure, but it slowed the
> printing procedure down and was much slower. This may have changed and if so I
> would be very interested. We need to print perhaps 1000 to 2000 letters at a
> time. I understand the speed of the printer will also effect the outcome. We
> have heavy duty printers that are high speed that are directly connected to
> our large copiers that copy 80 sheets per minute.
> 
> Again, we want to print through UNIX and not through windows.

Our Print Wizard logic runs on Windows. We do not have a pure Unix 
solution. (We did produce a Linux version of Print Wizard once, but it was 
focused on creating PDFs. Unix/Linux just doesn't have the device 
independent printer support we need.)

However, the fact that Windows gets involved shouldn't affect the speed. 
The limiting factor is almost always the speed of the printer, with these 
provisos:

1) If you are using the Print Wizard feature to add an overlay, that is an 
added task for the printer, and it will take more time. The nature of the 
overlay (bitmap vs. vector) is a significant factor here, depending on the 
processor power of the printer.

2) If PW is translating the PCL (for the overlay and/or the main data), 
there are some spots in which we have made significant improvements in our 
speed. Some of these improvements are not yet in the released version of 
AnzioWin, but are in version 16, now in beta. 

In short, if you have issues with speed, I'll work with you on it.

Regards,
....Bob Rasmussen,   President,   Rasmussen Software, Inc.

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