Print Quality Modes; Print-Quality Modes; Print Speed; Standard - Tektronix PHASER 380 User Manual

Printing Basics
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Print quality modes

Print speed

Print-quality mode
Fast Color

Standard

Enhanced (600 x 300)

Phaser 380 Color Printer
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Using the printer drivers provided with your printer, you can select from
three print quality modes:
Produces the fastest full-color prints. This print-quality mode is
Fast Color
not available for transparency printing. Transparency prints made with this
setting are printed using the Standard print-quality mode instead.
The default print-quality setting for full-color printing. Select this
Standard
print-quality mode for the fastest printing of transparencies.
Available with the Phaser 380 printerÕs Extended
Enhanced (600 x 300)
Features option. Used for PANTONE Color matching (set TekColor
Correction to None). For paper printing, select this print-quality mode for
the best text quality and the smoothest color blends. For transparency
printing, select this print-quality mode to produce transparencies with the
most vibrant colors, the smoothest color gradations and color sweeps, and
the highest durability.
Print speeds listed in the following table are based on the time it takes the
printer to make a single print. Printing of Tabloid Maximum-size
transparency is supported only from the manual feed slot.
Paper print speed
A4/Letter: 3.5 ppm
A3/Tabloid Maximum: 2.0 ppm
A4/Letter: 2.5 ppm
A3/Tabloid Maximum: 1.3 ppm
A4/Letter: 1.2 ppm
A3/Tabloid Maximum: 0.6 ppm
ppm is pages per minute
Transparency print speed
A4/Letter: not supported
A3/Tabloid Maximum: not supported
A4/Letter: 1.5 ppm
A3/Tabloid Maximum: manual feed slot
A4/Letter: 0.64 ppm
A3/Tabloid Maximum: manual feed slot