Eliminate Print Errors: Why PostScript is the Smart Choice for Large Format Quality

🎯 Who Benefits Most from PostScript?

The workflow advantages of PostScript are critical for users dealing with complex layers, high-resolution imagery, and strict color standards:

• Graphic Designers: Ideal for applications demanding optimized quality for PANTONE® color emulation.
• GIS Professionals (Geographic Information Systems): Optimized workflow for customers using software applications like ESRI.
• AEC/CAD Professionals (Architecture, Engineering, Construction): Optimized workflow for customers using software applications like Revit/Solid Works.

The Four Core Benefits of In-Printer PostScript Processing

PostScript® 3™ and the advanced APPE technology deliver efficiency and reliability by fundamentally changing how your printer handles complex files.

1. Eliminate Errors on Complex PDFs

When printing complex PDFs that contain different layers, transparencies, and overprints, standard drivers can fail, resulting in lost information or incorrect colors. PostScript® 3™, and especially APPE, ensures flawless processing:

• Benefit: No more errors printing complex PDFs with different layers.
• How it Works: The printer correctly processes PDF commands from line drawings and maps, to high-resolution imagery and graphics. APPE, in particular, overcomes previous PostScript limitations by processing PDF files natively, preserving all live transparencies.

HP DesignJet Z6/Z9 with Adobe PDF Print Engine (Native PDF)

Result: Accurate results, color consistent with the original PDF, preserving all transparencies and overprints.

Standard Raster Driver (Competitor)

Result: Loss of information and no clear transparency. Transparencies are not processed correctly, resulting in opaque areas in the final print output.

2. Optimized Quality for PANTONE® Color Emulation

For graphic designers and brands, accurate color matching is non-negotiable. Reproducing these colors accurately on a digital CMYK printer requires high-level color processing.

• Benefit: Optimized quality for PANTONE® color emulation.
• How it Works: The PostScript® 3™ driver automatically emulates PANTONE® colors to look similar to the original on any given printer/media combination. This uses the HP Professional PANTONE Emulation (HP PPE) technology, which automatically computes simulations optimized for a specific printer-media combination to mimic professional manual emulation.

3. Print PDFs Directly Without Opening Applications

This feature streamlines workflow and saves critical time for busy teams.

• Benefit: No need to open any application or driver to print a PDF file.
• How it Works: Printers with an onboard Adobe PostScript RIP have the ability to queue and print PDF files without ever opening the file (via EWS, HP Designjet ePrint & Share or by plugging a USB drive directly into T1600/T2600 PostScript Printer).

4. Minimize Network Traffic and PC Processing Time

Processing large, complex files is demanding on both your network and your local PC. Shifting the processing burden to the printer frees up your computer for other tasks.

• Benefit: Minimize network traffic and PC processing time thanks to the in-printer PostScript processing.
• How it Works: When the PostScript RIP is embedded directly in the printer, the heavy computation required to translate the PDF file into printable data happens *on the printer*, not on the user’s computer.

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