Print-Quality Modes - Tektronix Phaser 550 User Manual

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Printing

Print-quality modes

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Phaser 550 Color Printer
Produces the fastest full-color output at 600 x 600 dpi, nearly
Fast Color
5 pages per minute (ppm). When printing raster image data or color
graphics, this mode provides excellent output using CMY toners. Not
recommended for documents containing large amounts of black text.
The default setting, at 600 x 600 dpi. This is the best
Standard
general-purpose mode for full color printing. Prints at nearly 4 ppm color
and 14 ppm monochrome, depending on the size and complexity of the
image. You can get faster throughput with more memory installed.
This mode produces high quality color prints at 1200 x 600 dpi.
* Enhanced
It provides more detail and clarity in scanned images and prints at nearly
4 ppm color and 14 ppm monochrome. This print-quality mode requires
that a minimum of 16 Mbytes of additional RAM be installed (for a total of
24 Mbytes). You can get faster throughput with more memory installed.
This mode produces the highest quality color prints at
* Premium
1200 x 1200 dpi. It provides near photographic detail and prints about
2 ppm. This print-quality mode requires that a minimum of 16 Mbytes of
additional RAM be installed (for a total of 24 Mbytes). You can get faster
throughput with more memory installed.
This mode, selectable from the front panel, prints at
Presentation
600 x 600 dpi and produces the smoothest and brightest large-area Þlls.
Presentation mode is always used when you select transparency Þlm,
regardless of the driver print-quality setting. When you select Presentation
mode in the front panel, it replaces Standard mode as the default and will be
used when Standard mode is selected from the driver. This mode can be
useful for printing paper copies of overhead presentations.
* If you select Premium or Enhanced mode but do not have the extended
features option and sufÞcient memory installed, prints are made in Standard
mode.