Continuous printing improves the throughput of prints to the HP Latex printers by allowing print jobs to print immediately after each other without the finishing and drying phase occurring between each print.
Note: For this option to show in the Printer Settings, your printer must be running the latest firmware and your prints must exceed 80mm in length. If you are running the latest firmware version and it is still not visible, it means your printer does not support this function.
Activating Continuous Printing
- Launch the AVA Digital Print Rip.
- Select File Menu > New printer as select your HP model from the list of available printers.
- Enter the IP address of the printer and select Connect.
- Go to File Menu > Open Print Queue… and either select the folder you want to use as a Print Queue, or create a new folder.
- Go to Queue Menu > Printer Settings and select the settings you wish to use for this printer / substrate.
- Tick Continuous Printing.
- Go to Queue Menu > Queue Settings and tick ‘Print from recent queue first.
Note: You may want to customise the tool bar to make your most frequently used options more accessible.
If you have multiple print queues for the same printer, Continuous Printing will favour the recent print queue when processing the next job, as opposed to favouring the age of the job, which is what other printers without the Continuous Printing feature do.
This means if Queue 1 is currently processing a job and in the meantime a file is sent to Queue 2, and then another is sent to Queue 1, the file sent to Queue 1 will print before the file in Queue 2 because it is in the recent print queue.
If Queue 1 has finished processing all of its prints, it will begin processing the next queue, however a drying/finishing cycle will occur before these prints start. This is because it will be printing with different settings.