Scalable Consumption
Hardware vendors and OEMs are looking for fast and efficient PDL printing with the minimum of resources on their devices; scalable consumption addresses these requirements. Scalable consumption can be described when some portion of the print stream processing is off-loaded from the printing device to another process somewhere upstream from the device. This enables the device to print any arbitrary job, where it may not have been able to on its own, perhaps because of restricted resources on the device.
Scalable consumption enables vendors to limit local resource in the device and therefore cost on a device whilst simultaneously ensuring that their device can be perceived as ‘compliant’ with a particular format. For example, hardware vendors and OEMs face a challenge when deploying XPS solutions – how to best realize the benefits of native XPS printing without incurring additional cost across their product range.
Global Graphics technology is built on a Scalable Consumption architecture model, providing a flexible and extendable platform that our customers can use to implement a range of scalable consumption solutions. These solutions can be optimized for specific types of device, or even specific instances of a device, to maximize the efficiency and cost effectiveness of their printing workflow. And because the same core technology is used from host print drivers to embedded controllers in a device, Global Graphics can provide greatest fidelity across your product lines.
Why do you need Scalable Consumption?XPS is a very powerful PDL which requires sufficient resources to fully support it; equivalent to resources that support PDF 1.4 and more resources than are required to support PostScript®. The challenge is how to fully support XPS in resource constrained, low end embedded devices and this is where Scalable Consumption becomes essential.
