Increasing the Print Speed

Follow the instructions in this section to select settings that increase the print speed.

Just as printing at a high resolution requires more processing time than printing at a low resolution, printing in color takes longer than printing in black-and-white because the volume of data in a color document is much larger. For this reason, it is important to be selective in your use of color printing if you also require a fast print speed.

However, even if your document requires the highest resolution and extensive use of color—for example, when you are printing a camera-ready composite that includes color photographs—it may still be possible to optimize the print speed by adjusting other print settings and changing the operating environment. Keep in mind that some settings that increase the print speed may also lower print quality.

The following table lists the factors that affect print speed and print quality.

Print quality Print speed		Lower Faster	Higher Slower
Printer settings	Paper & Quality Options (Windows)* Print Quality (Macintosh)*	Fast Economy, Economy, Normal, Fine, Super Fine	Photo, Best Photo, Photo RPM
Printer settings	High Speed	On	Off
Image characteristics	Image size	Small	Large
Image characteristics	Resolution	Low	High

Print speed		Faster	Slower
Printer settings	Orientation	Portrait	Landscape
	Black Ink Only	On	Off
	Edge Smoothing*	Off	On
	Photo Enhance	Off	On
	Reverse Order*	Off	On
Hardware resources	System speed	Faster	Slower
	Free hard disk space	Large	Small
	Available memory	Large	Small
Software status	Running applications	One	Many

You can increase print speed by selecting certain settings in the Speed & Progress window. Click the Speed & Progress button on your printer driver’s Maintenance window. The following screen appears.

To print multiple copies of your document faster, select High Speed Copies. This speeds up printing by using your hard disk space as a cache when printing multiple copies of a document.

To display the Progress Meter every time you print, select Show Progress Meter.

Select this checkbox to disable printer status monitoring with EPSON Status Monitor 3.

Select the Always spool RAW datatype checkbox to have Windows NT-based clients spool documents using the RAW format instead of the EMF (metafile) format (Windows NT-based applications use the EMF format by default).

You can also use this option if documents spooled in EMF format do not print correctly or if you have insufficient memory or disk space problems.

Select this checkbox when the print speed is extremely slow or when the print head stops for a few minutes while printing.

Select this checkbox when the print speed is extremely slow or when the print head stops for a few minutes while printing. Try this option if Always spool RAW datatype and Page Rendering Mode do not solve the problem.

You can change settings for EPSON Status Monitor 3 in the Monitoring Preferences window. Right-click the shortcut icon on the taskbar, then select Monitoring Preferences.

Select Notification

Displays the current error notification settings.

Select the checkboxes for the error types for which you want to receive notification.

Click the Default button to revert all Select Notification settings to their defaults.

Select Shortcut Icon

To have a shortcut icon placed on your Windows taskbar, select the Shortcut Icon checkbox and choose an icon. You can click the shortcut icon to open EPSON Status Monitor 3, or right-click the icon to access some of the printer utilities.

Allow monitoring of shared printers

Select this checkbox to allow monitoring of a shared printer by other computers.