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Printing with Windows

Increasing the Print Speed

General tips
Using Speed & Progress

Follow the instructions in this section to increase the printing speed of your printer.

General tips

Just as printing at a high resolution requires more processing time, printing in color takes longer than printing in black because the volume of data in a color document is much greater. For this reason, it is important to be selective in your use of color 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 printing conditions. Keep in mind that changing some conditions to increase the print speed may also lower print quality.

The following table shows the factors that inversely affect print speed and print quality (increasing one will decrease the other).

Print quality
Print speed

Lower
Faster

Higher
Slower

Printer driver menu

Printer driver
settings

Print Quality

Economy,
Normal

Photo

Advanced dialog box

High Speed

On

Off

Halftoning

High Speed Halftoning

High Quality Halftoning

Finest Detail

Off

On

Data
characteristics

Image size

Small

Large

Resolution

Low

High

The table below shows the factors related to print speed only.

Print speed

Faster

Slower

Printer driver menu

Printer driver
settings

Ink

Black

Color

Advanced dialog box,
Main menu

Flip Horizontal*

Off

On

Advanced dialog box

Collate*

Off

On

Paper menu

Reverse Order*

Off

On

Data
characteristics

Variety of colors

Grayscale**

Full color

Hardware
resources

System speed

Faster

Slower

Hard Disk free space

Large

Small

Memory free space

Large

Small

Software status

Running applications

One

Many

Virtual memory

Not in use

In use

*  Varies depending on the printer driver and application software you are using.
**  Grayscale means using black ink only to print varying shades of gray, from pure black to pure white.


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Using Speed & Progress

You can make certain print speed settings in the Speed & Progress dialog box. Click the Speed & Progress button on your printer software's Utility menu. The following dialog box appears.

High Speed Copies

Select this check box to turn on high-speed printing for multiple copies. This speeds up printing by using your hard disk space as a cache when printing multiple copies of your document.

EPSON Printer Port

Select this check box to enable the EPSON printer port, which is optimized for EPSON printers, instead of the Windows default printer port. This speeds up the data transfer rate to EPSON printers.

Note:
You cannot make this setting if your printer is connected with USB port.


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