Increasing The Print Speed; General Tips - Epson Stylus Pro 4400 Reference Manual

Increasing the Print Speed

General tips

Printing color data using higher print quality settings takes longer
than printing black-and-white data using standard print quality,
as the volume of high quality color data 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.
However, even if your data 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.
The following table shows the factors that inversely affect print
speed and print quality.
Print quality
Print speed
Advanced
menu settings
Data
characteristics
The following table shows the factors related to print speed only.
Print speed
Advanced
menu settings
Data
characteristics
Higher
Slower
Print Quality SuperFine -
1440dpi
High Speed Off
Image Size Large
Resolution High
Faster
Color Black
Flip Off
Horizontal
Variety of Grayscale
colors
Lower
Faster
Normal -
360dpi
On
Small
Low
Slower
Color or
Color/B&W Photo
On
Full color
Printing with Windows
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1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
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