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Increasing the Print Speed

General tips
Using the High Speed Copies feature

General tips

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
Print speed

Lower
Faster

Higher
Slower

Printer driver settings

Print Quality

Economy,
Normal

Super fine

High Speed

On

Off

Halftoning

No Halftoning

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

Reverse Order*

Off

On

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

*  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.


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Using the High Speed Copies feature

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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