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c/mildlyinfuriating · by Wispy2891@lemmy.world · 146d

I was wondering why the €40k printer at work was choking with "simple" Canva PDFs

Where the fuck they found such ancient hardware in 2022??? Don't they feel shame in charging this much money for this shit?

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LodeMike@lemmy.today · 42 pts · 145d (2 replies)

This should have no problem printing PDFs of any size.

kn33@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 145d (1 reply)

Yeah, a microcontroller would be able to print a PDF given enough time. This should be instant. I'd contact IT and let them know. They might try out different drivers. Some drivers can really overblow the file size that's actually sent to the printer, causing it to be slow to transfer over the network.

dustyData@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 145d

It's not the machine. I'd bet money that it is Canva's fault.

drrodneymckay_@sh.itjust.works · 31 pts · 146d (2 replies)

Same thing with retail POS terminals. Old weak system , out of date software , no security updates, limited support response. Yet it's must be secure and isolated.... maybe it needs to be isolated because they know it's not secure on its own...

Blaster_M@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 146d (1 reply)

POS systems all live up to their acronyms. Intel Atom (or the lowest end chinesium) CPUs, barely enough RAM to function, an out of date build of Windows (or Android), and software that feels like it was designed in 1993 and never grew out of that era. Often requiring a screen resolution of 800x600 for PC on VGA touch displays that feel like they're 25 years old, and force disable all ipv6 because we don't want to risk the network working better than the recommended static ipv4 setup from hell.

drrodneymckay_@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 146d

I forgot about the 800x600. We have windows scaling set up to stretch and fill a nice 1920x1080 fhd touch screen. Had to find some creative solutions to allow our security software and policies to work.

More power, current hardware, better experience, less money. Doesn't sound possible.

LiveLM@lemmy.zip · 19 pts · 145d (1 reply)

I mean, 3Ghz should be more than enough to parse any PDF, I'd place my bets on Canva spitting out malformed PDFs over this hardware not being enough

Wispy2891@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 145d

Because it is a raster image processor, it rasterizes pages at 1200 DPI CMYK raw files, then applies proprietary color correction profiles, algorithms, imposing booklet and so on.

I tried a totally blank page, if even 1 mm bigger than 13*19 inch (330*489 mm) the server crashes and reboots (I presume OOM)

So when there are one billion vector objects or transparencies, it takes like 1 minute per page

fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 146d (6 replies)

Our printer at work is fancy and has a haswell based pentium and a whole 4 gigs of ram. It’s only a little over 10 years old hardware.

The printer also supports vnc for some reason. I haven’t figured out why.

pewpew@feddit.it · 6 pts · 146d (2 replies)

So you can game on it

kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 146d (1 reply)

Can it play doom?

kn33@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 145d

💯

valkyre09@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 145d

You can VNC to the printer to access the control panel. I do remote support and it’s a life saver when trying to troubleshoot / test scanning by functions

Squizzy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 145d (1 reply)

I saw a thing today that the new apple displays have 12gb of ram because their economies of scale for their in house chip is so low.

Wispy2891@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 145d

The prior-generation ‌Studio Display‌ had 64GB of storage, so the new displays have double the capacity. Apple likely found it more affordable to use existing NAND storage from its iPhone supply chain rather than to invest in smaller modules with less storage. Most of the 128GB is probably unnecessary.

probably unnecessary

CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net · 9 pts · 145d

How's the PDF formatted, is it optimised for print? Because Canva has pretty fucking sloppy output normally.

TomMasz@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 146d

I worked in that industry (for a company that used Fiery print controllers with some products), and this is standard practice. Our machines took forever to boot up because of limited RAM and slow CPUs. Even their latest machines, which we have at my current employer, struggle. One can only imagine what newer ones will be like with the current RAM situation.

MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 146d (1 reply)

Well? Why does it choke?

doopen@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 145d

Must be Linux!

skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 146d
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badcommandorfilename@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 146d

RAM prices, 'mrite?

Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club · 1 pts · 145d (1 reply)

Dang, a 0.5TB HDD really sells it (it prob just loads the os to memory).

kn33@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 145d

Loads the OS, stores log information, maybe a rotating storage of copies of things it prints/copies for audit/investigation purposes.