Obviously the Adobe PDF format was a favourite from the start given its acceptance as a universally acceptable document format. The PCL2PDF product supplied by Visual Software made this possible. The first is to print results at the competition and non-competition venues. The former provides the scoring and timing, the latter provides the computers, networks, results applications, etc. We provide the high speed printers.
Numbers vary from venue to venue.
The printers to be used are Xerox 265ST, a 65 page per minute printer. We built an application in conjunction with IBM to manage the print files and distribute them across the printers at a venue. The application receives 1 pcl file, and creates as many copies as needed to satisfy the requirements. Large print jobs are split into smaller chunks and fed to multiple printers. The second is to produce results books.