Any one out there familiar with the first page out concept?

I noticed it is not very often advertised out there, even with really fast printers.

First page out is the amount of time the printer takes to print the fist page of a print job after sitting idle.

I have an unusual application, in a manufacturing process where I need an operator to insert a certificate in a box as a product is being made. It takes about 4 to 5 secs to stuff the certificates in each box and the certs must match the product.

Each certificate will be a new, separate print job, therefore the printer needs to have an exeptionally low first page out value.

Most 40 ppm+ printers have a 8 to 9 sec value, therefore I am thinking of using a dot-matrix, but its hard to find a dot-matrix with good cut-sheet handling capabilities.

Any ideas out there?

thanks,

Mike



[This message has been edited by mikevm (edited March 13, 2001).]