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Color at Work
®
Print
Productivity
The choice between PCL and PostScript is
one shrouded in mystery for most end
users. Some may have a concept that
PostScript is more suited to graphic-centric
documents, but that is usually about it.
As part of its evaluation, BERTL looks at
the differences in both productivity and
bandwidth terms between the two page
description languages (PDLs), highlighting
whether or not educating the staff to the
benefits of choosing the correct PDL for
the job actually pays dividends.
As the table and chart illustrate, there are
some advantages to choosing one PDL or
the other. The productivity differences
were less pronounced than we have seen
on some other devices where PCL has at
times delivered very large productivity
advantages over PostScript.
There was little to be gained from PCL on
most jobs apart from the 33-page
Publisher file. However PostScript did offer
a considerable reduction in network
bandwidth burden across most file types.
PCL PS
50-page Sarbanes- Oxley
document as PDF
601 Kb 1.53 MB
6-page PDF mixed medium
resolution graphics and text
6.86 MB 1.14 MB
2-page PDF with high
resolution graphics
11.1 MB 6.48 MB
16-page PDF magazine
8.27 MB 3.31 MB
38-page Word document
with text and tables
8.05 MB 3.52 MB
32-page text intensive
PowerPoint presentation
5.08 MB 1.87 MB
69-page graphic intensive
PowerPoint presentation
31.9 MB 13.0 MB
33-page Publisher doc. with
graphics
113 MB 153 MB
BANDWIDTH COMPARISON