HELIOS TCP printing excels in a higher data transfer rate, and greatly reduces printing times
(All clients were connected via 100 MBit-Ethernet. Internal tests show that there is no difference in performance using GigaBit Ethernet for printing. Print spooler was an EtherShare 3.1 server running on a 1 GHz Xserve machine.)
XPress (G4/450 MHz; Mac OS 9.2):
- 20 MB TIFF image file
- Placed 10 times in Quark XPress 5 document
- Composite output
- Resulting PostScript job size: 190 MB
Photoshop (G4/450 MHz; Mac OS 9.2):
- 105 MB CMYK image file
- Printed directly from Photoshop 7 (Classic environment)
- Resulting PostScript code: 128 MB
PostScript download (G3/600 MHz):
- 190 MB local PostScript file
- PostScript download via desktop print spooler (dragging PS-file onto printer icon)
HELIOS TCP printing is up to 3 times faster than AppleTalk-PAP printing!
| XPress | Photoshop | PS-download | |
| AppleTalk-PAP | 1063 kBytes/s | 1514 kBytes/s | 1087 kBytes/s |
| HELIOS TCP Printer | 2114 kBytes/s | 4767 kBytes/s | 3590 kBytes/s |
| Apple Remote LPR | 1420 kBytes/s | 2299 kBytes/s | 1510 kBytes/s |
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Please note that the HELIOS TCP/IP SLP printer driver is also available for Mac OS X.
Information about HELIOS EtherShare 3.1 vs. Windows 2000 Server print spooling can be found here.
Smart Ideas for Better Networking
HELIOS products run on powerful and scalable servers including Apple Computer Mac OS X, Hewlett-Packard HP-UX and Tru64 UNIX, IBM AIX, SGI IRIX, Sun Solaris, and Linux on Pentium based systems. HELIOS products provide reliable cross-platform support for Macintosh, DOS/Windows and UNIX-based clients.
Distributors sell HELIOS products worldwide to value-added resellers who provide complete networking solutions to customers. HELIOS also works with many strategic partners that incorporate HELIOS server software to provide powerful third party archive, asset management and workflow solutions. HELIOS software products are also available as part of OEM solutions by many major vendors in the prepress industry.
For U.S. Sales:
European MikroGraf Corp.: 916-923-3520; E-mail: sales (at) ugraf.com; www.ugraf.com
Editorial contact:
Germany
Helmut Tschemernjak, HELIOS Software GmbH, Steinriede 3, D-30827 Garbsen, Germany; Tel +49-5131-709320 Fax +49 5131-709325;
E-mail: mktg (at) helios.de; Internet: www.helios.com
U.S.A.
Thomas Hallinan, HELIOS Software GmbH, 209-827-2760, mktg (at) helios.de
Bill Gram-Reefer, WORLDVIEW, 925-215-8463, reefer (at) worldviewpr.com