For Monochrome Printing; Other Ways To Improve Print Speed In Windows - Canon Color Bubble Jet BJC-4550 User Manual

For Monochrome Printing

Use the optional BC-20 Black BJ cartridge to optimize the printer's
performance when you are printing black text and graphics only.
In the BJC-4550 printer driver, choose the following settings to tell
your printer to print using black ink only.
Media Type—Plain Paper
Print Quality—Standard
Color Model—Monochrome
Print Model—Automatic

Other Ways to Improve Print Speed in Windows

To improve printing speed, you can try the following:
Turn off the Print Manager in the Windows
Control Panel
(Windows 3.1 only).
This avoids the extra step of sending the print file to the Print
Manager and may increase your printing speed by as much as
25%, depending on the computer you are using.
Add a permanent swap file in Windows
3.1.
Under the 386 Enhanced icon in the Windows Control Panel, add
or create a permanent swap file that is from 4 MB to 9 MB. The
computer will be able to prepare the print file faster. See your
Windows documentation for instructions.
Avoid diffusion halftones.
In the Custom Settings dialog box, choose Diffusion only when
printing final output or photographic images. Choosing a Halftone
setting of Fine allows documents to print as much as 20% faster
because the computer does not need to compute to "best possible
position" for each dot.
Avoid screen matched color.
In the Custom Settings dialog box, avoid Match as the Color
Adjustment setting. The screen matching feature takes longer to
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Using the Printer With Windows
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