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Increasing the Print Speed

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Using Speed & Progress

General tips

Printing color data using higher print quality settings takes longer than printing black-and-white data using standard print quality, as the volume of high quality color data is much greater. For this reason, it is important to be selective in your use of color and print quality settings if you also require a faster print speed.

However, even if your data requires the highest print quality and extensive use of color, it may still be possible to optimize the print speed by adjusting other printing conditions.

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

Print quality

Higher

Lower

Print speed

Slower

Faster

Advanced menu settings

Print Quality

SuperFine - 1440dpi

Normal - 360dpi

High Speed

Off

On

Data characteristics

Image Size

Large

Small

Resolution

High

Low

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

Print speed

Faster

Slower

Advanced menu settings

Color

Black

Color

Flip Horizontal

Off

On

Data characteristics

Variety of colors

Grayscale

Full color

Hardware resources

System speed

Fast

Slow

HDD free space

Large

Small

Memory free space

Large

Small

Software status

Running applications

One

Many

Virtual memory

Not in use

In use

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Using Speed & Progress

You can make certain print speed settings in the Speed & Progress dialog box. To access this dialog box, click Speed & Progress on the Utility menu. For details, see Making the Speed & Progress settings.

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