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Printing with Windows
General tips
Using Speed & Progress
Printing color data using higher print quality settings takes longer than printing black-and-white data in 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 |
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Print speed |
Slower |
Faster |
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Advanced menu settings |
Print Quality |
SuperFine - 1440dpi |
Normal - 360 dpi |
High Speed |
Off |
On |
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Data characteristics |
Image Size |
Large |
Small |
Resolution |
High |
Low |
The following table shows the factors related to print speed only.
Print speed |
Faster |
Slower |
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Advanced menu settings |
Ink |
Black |
Color/B&W Photo |
Flip Horizontal |
Off |
On |
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Data characteristics |
Variety of colors |
Grayscale |
Full color |
Hardware resources |
System speed |
Fast |
Slow |
HDD free space |
Large |
Small |
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Memory free space |
Large |
Small |
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Software status |
Running applications |
One |
Many |
Virtual memory |
Not in use |
In use |
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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