Increasing the Print Speed

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
Advanced menu settings	High Speed	Off	On
Data characteristics	Image Size	Large	Small
Data characteristics	Resolution	High	Low

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

Print speed		Faster	Slower
Advanced menu settings	Color	Black	Color
Advanced menu settings	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
Software status	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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