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Printer / Using the Printer Software for Windows
General tips
Using the High Speed Copies feature
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 faster print speed.
Even if your document requires the highest resolution and extensive use of color, for example when 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 positively and negatively affect print speed and print quality (increasing one decreases the other).
Print quality |
Lower |
Higher |
Printer driver settings |
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Print Quality |
Economy, |
Super fine |
High Speed |
On |
Off |
Halftoning |
No Halftoning |
Error Diffusion |
Finest Detail |
Off |
On |
Data characteristics |
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Image size |
Small |
Large |
Resolution |
Low |
High |
The table below shows the factors related to print speed only.
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Print speed |
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Faster |
Slower |
Printer driver settings |
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Ink |
Black |
Color |
Collate* |
Off |
On |
Reverse Order* |
Off |
On |
Flip Horizontal* |
Off |
On |
Data characteristics |
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Variety of colors |
Grayscale** |
Full color |
Hardware resources |
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System speed |
Fast |
Slow |
HDD free space |
Large |
Small |
Memory free space |
Large |
Small |
Software status |
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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. |
To access this feature, click the Speed & Progress button on your printer software's Utility menu. The following dialog box appears.
Select the High Speed Copies to make copies faster. This speeds up printing by using your hard disk space as a cache when printing multiple copies of your document.
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