Users can ensure optimal productivity by leveraging the new destination cluster feature in the new QDirect software release. A destination cluster (printer group) is a group of printers that QDirect manages as a virtual single device.
For example, four 100 ppm printers can be clustered to create a theoretical 400 ppm virtual device. The investment in printing devices pays off with increased utilisation, faster turnaround time and reduced labour and operating costs.
In addition to QDirect output management’s abilities to control, automate workflow, route, and manage production print output, any print facility with multiple production printers can increase efficiency and equipment utilisation and reduce costs with the new QDirect software release.
Available soon, advanced load balancing and job splitting increase throughput with new printer group ‘cluster’ printing and automated job routing and splitting to the best device for the job.
QDirect’s new load balancing and job splitting capabilities can be used in combination with new destination clusters to run a group of printers efficiently and cost effectively.
With load balance, users can submit a stream of jobs to a destination cluster where QDirect will load balance jobs between devices to ensure the workload is evenly split.
Users can split jobs by quantity to improve device utilisation. Instead of printing to a single printer for hours while other printers are idle, use QDirect to send the same job to all the printers in the cluster at the same time and split the job quantity between printers.
For large or transactional jobs, QDirect can divide the job into smaller, more manageable segments by printing the job on multiple printers in the print cluster.
With QDirect’s new colour splitting ability across a printer cluster, there is no need to pay higher colour click charges for a job with only a few colour pages. QDirect uses auto-detection or user input to identify pages with colour content and splits the colour and black and white pages into two jobs.
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