Print speed is an important consideration if you require a high volume of labels to be printed daily or during peak cycles. That is because print speed is an element of “throughput”: the time lapsed between receipt of the print command and completion of the printing process. Throughput depends not only on printing time, but also on label formatting time: the time required to convert the program and data to an image on the label. Depending on the complexity of the label format and the printer’s ability to process this information in an efficient manner, label-formatting time can sometimes cause significant print delays, affecting a printer’s overall print speed capability. Such delays can be costly in productivity if they occur in a production environment where time and on-demand print capability are of the essence.