Hence, productivity of a wide format printer has become one of the most important criteria. Most of the users relate fast printing speed as high productivity. There is nothing wrong on such assumption, but what has been overlooked is the file processing time or print processing time.
Printing speed is the speed measure based on how fast a printer produce a technical drawing or printout. It is measure from the printer head start moving until it stop printing.
File processing speed or print processing speed is measure from the moment a file is sent to the printer for printing until the print head start moving.
The video below best define the file processing speed and printing speed.