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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).
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Print quality Print speed
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Lower Faster
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Higher Slower
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Printer driver settings
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Print Quality
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Economy, Normal - 360 dpi
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Photo - 1440 dpi
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High Speed
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On
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Off
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Halftoning
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Fine Dithering
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Error Diffusion
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Finest Detail
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Off
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On
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Data characteristics
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Image size
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Small
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Large
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Resolution
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Low
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High
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The table below shows the factors related to print speed only.
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Print speed
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Faster
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Slower
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Printer driver settings
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Ink
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Black
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Color
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Collate*
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Off
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On
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Flip Horizontal*
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Off
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On
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Reverse Order*
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Off
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On
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Data characteristics
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Variety of colors
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Grayscale
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Full color
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Hardware resources
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System speed
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Fast
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Slow
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HDD free space
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Large
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Small
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Memory free space
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Large
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Small
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Software status
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Running applications
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One
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Many
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Virtual memory
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Not in use
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In use
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*Varies depending on the printer driver and application software you are using.
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