We are trying out a Kyocera FS-8000c Color laser printer. I set up a drawing with an aerial photo to run test plots (11x17 sheet size). The company sent 2 reps to set it up and our network admin. spent some time trying to tweak the printer. I sent a plot to our HP 500 Designjet plotter which took only seconds to dump to the plotter. The plot spool file was 2.67 MB. (plotter is connected to a jetdirect 42+HPGL Card). The same plot when sent to the laser printer was 58.4 MB and took about 5 min to dump to the spooler, and then another 5-10 min to print. (Laser printer is connected via standard tcp/ip port, with 64 MB memory installed). Needless to say, the performance of the printer is a drawback. Is this what we can expect from all color lasers? Is there some driver or settings that we should be using that will give us significant improvements? I know that more memory on the printer should help the performance on the printer end, but that should not help autocad to process and dump it to the printer, should it? The laser is set to print at 600x600, with Page Description Language (PDL) set to PCL 5c, high quality mode. Dell Precision Workstatoin 530 MT Windows XP pro Intel Xeon Dual 1.7GHZ CPU 512 MB RAM FUJITSU 33.9 GB SCSI Hard Disk 3com 3C920 Fast Ethernet Land Destop 3 (Service pack 2) Civil Design 3 Map 5 Autocad 2002
