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Increasing the Print Speed

Printing color images using higher print quality settings takes longer than printing black-and-white images with normal print quality, because the volume of data in a high-quality color document 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.

Even if your document 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. 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 settings

Print Quality

Economy,
Normal - 360 dpi

Photo - 1440 dpi

High Speed

On

Off

Halftoning

Fine Dithering

Error Diffusion

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 settings

Ink

Black

Color

Collate*

Off

On

Flip Horizontal*

Off

On

Reverse Order*

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

*Varies depending on the printer driver and application software you are using.

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