May 16, 2019
NOTE: During driver development it was discovered that if Continous Mode Repeats or Immediate Print were use to send a print job to the printer, but the PC was unable to send enough data to keep the printer from becoming data starved, it was possible for a print job to not completely print. One way to address this issue is to use a powerful PC and avoid running other programs that are system resource intensive while printing. Or disable Immediate Print and use High Speed mode for Repeats.
By default very large print jobs require a significant amount of data to be spooled to the "Super Printing" control software before printing starts. In the "Super Printing" control software is a control in "Rip Settings" called "Base Setting". By default it is set to 5%. This is the amount of the print job data that needs to be received before printing starts.
This is effectively a buffer setting. For small print jobs the setting won't be as noticeable. For larger jobs 5% can be a significant amount of data, requiring a long time to spool before printing starts.
If Continuous Mode Repeats or Immediate Print are required for your print job but you'd like to avoid making incomplete prints then it is recommended to set the "Base Setting" to a higher value. While it may take longer before printing begins it will also give the Super Printing control software a larger data buffer in which to avoid data starvation and incomplete prints.
If you'd like to have printing begin as soon as data is received then set the "Base Setting" control to a lower value. If Continuous Mode Repeats or Immediate Print are not being used then there is less concern for setting this to a lower value to help speed up print time.