Xerox DocuTech 6100 Production Publisher Merkblatt

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9-8

System Guide

The DC 6060 print engine cycles down on certain operations 
such as on tray/bank switches or between jobs. Each cycle 
may take 10-40 seconds to complete before the print engine 
is ready to print again. 
To avoid unnecessary print engine cycling, you can perform 
the following steps:
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Disable finishing, slip-sheets and offset stacking.

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Disable banner sheets when making multiple copies of a 
job.

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Avoid media tray switches by constructing the job to use 
only a single size, color, and weight of paper and by 
ensuring before running a job that the currently active tray 
has enough media loaded to print the entire job.

To stop the cycle of skipped pitches and cycle the print 
engine down, perform one of the following to improve the 
overall job performance:

1. Process the job in N-1 order rather than 1-N order. This 

forces the job to be completely RIPed before the print 
engine is started up. When the print engine starts it 
consumes pages at 60 ppm until all pages are printed.

2. The user could pause the printer (the green button on the 

DocuSP interface) until a large number of pages in the job 
have been RIPed.   If the user then resumes the printer at 
the right time (some time before the whole job is RIPed), 
the print engine prints all of the queued pages and the 
controller simultaneously finishes RIPing the remainder of 
the job. To do this successfully, the user needs to watch 
and compute the rate that DocuSP is RIPing at. If you 
know how many pages are in the job, then knowing that 
the printer generates paper at 60 ppm, you can compute 
how far from the end of the job to release the printer so 
that RIP and print finish at the same time.

Load the PCI Channel Interface PWB Trace command when 
software is installed and the PCI Channel Interface PWB is 
detected. This procedure is usually performed at the request 
of Software Engineering or as part of a SPAR package.