The additional RAM in the printer will not make the printer print faster, it only helps speed up the process known as “spooling”. Spooling is the process of your computer offloading a print job to the printer’s memory for processing.

For instance, consider the situation where you have a document with a lot of graphics or a document with many, many pages and a printer with little memory. If your printer only has 4 MB of RAM and your document is 16 MB, your computer will have to split the job up into multiple parts (less than 4 MB each) and spool each part to the printer. Your computer will then have to wait until each part completes in order to send the next part.

If you upgrade your printer to 32 MB and try to print the same large or graphics-heavy document, your computer should send the job much more quickly and with less processing involved; your computer no longer has to split up the job into multiple parts.

I do not have a specific document for you, but you could try this test:

1) Print a document that is larger than the original amount of RAM you had in the printer. You might be able to do this by creating a new document and inserting a bunch of photographs into it.

2) Observe the amount of time the job takes to finish spooling (i.e. when the job disappears from your print queue). When you have the print queue open, also observe the size of the job as reported by the queue to make sure that the document is sufficiently large to justify the test; the size must exceed the amount of RAM.

3) Now turn off the printer and remove the new RAM

4) Perform the same print and observe the spooling time now. Your spooling time will be extended.

That is not a very scientific test, but it should demonstrate to you the spooling time reduction that the new memory facilitates.

I hope that this helps and thanks for writing! -Dennis

I just upgrade mine to 34MB with two sticks of 16MB/60ns (8 x Siemens HYB3117405). So far everything is ok. The self test reports 34Mb so all looks ok.
However i don’t see any improvements in printing. Can you direct me to something I could print with and without the extra memory so that the difference would be visible.

Thanks.

Thanks