Print a pdf directly to a printer to avoid repeated ripping of the same image

[nonlinearly]

Hi,

I have created a 3.000 pages document from inDesign heaving its page the same color image as background and variable data. The document exported as pdf. Because of this method the file has very little size (about 3MB). The resulted pdf does not using a copy in every page but share it (very cool).

The problem that I have is that when I print this pdf using the windows postscript drivers of my industrial printer (Xerox) then it takes very long time to ripp. I think that even if the pdf has only once the image the windows drivers does not understand this and send the image with every page.

I discussed this with someone and told me to print the pdf directly to the printer without the interference of printer's driver. As an example he mentioned that when we have a postscript file we do the same to print it (otherwise the postscript code will be printed) using a command line like lpr and put as an argument the IP of the printer (or using some tools for this like the free PrintFile but this is only for postscript files).

Could someone explain to me what he meant? And how is the syntax of the lpr?

Thanks in advance

 

[xfactor printing]

What happens if you use EFI Command Workstation (free download) to add your PDF directly to the print queue?

(assuming your xerox has a fiery rip)

 

[hosteen]

If you have a fiery rip, you can print the color background image to the fiery as a master page. Then you only need to send your other data when you print the document. The fiery can merge the two during printing and seriously shorten processing time.