High Speed Industrial Printing

I have a job of 10,000,000 pages that will need to be printed. The PDF documents are created as individual files that will be uploaded on a server for online viewing, as well as having to be printed.
To print, the print server rips each file to AFP which is slow and processor intensive. Is there some other method to submit the job in order to reduce the time required?

If you are constrained (as I imagine you are) to a particular piece of industrial IBM kit, your best bet is to try and focus on the manufacturer of that kit. They should know the tricks.
That said, some thoughts. I don't know if you can avoid rendering into AFP. Perhaps a direct device RIP is available - is this one (ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/printers/images/ppdfrip.pdf)?
There is a certain overhead to each file. I'd hope for better performance from a 1000 page file than 1000 1 page files. (But don't try to do a 10 million page file!)  This at least may be easy to test.
Whatever you do will be processor intensive. If it isn't running at 100% CPU you are wasting computing power. Don't share the server. Spend big on a really meaty processor with lots of everything (ideally, test this before spending the money). Make sure that your process is able to spread over multiple CPUs and cores.
But really, I'd hope you can get better advice from IBM than from me.

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