Fastest Print Time - Tektronix Phaser 540 Plus User Manual

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Printing
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Phaser 540 Color Printer

Fastest print time

The total print time depends on the following:
Image complexity
Image size
Type of port used and network traffic
Printer's memory configuration (a 52-Mbyte configuration
is fastest)
Resolution selected (300 x 300 dpi is twice as fast as 600 x 600 dpi)
Type of media (paper or transparencies)
Of these elements, only the time contributed by the printer's paper-marking
speed (the time it takes the printer to put the colored toner on the paper once
it has received the processed image) is predictable; the others can vary
greatly depending on your system configuration and the type of image you
are printing. However, the Phaser 540 PostScript interpreter combines very
fast image processing and communication with sophisticated memory
management to keep the total print time to a minimum.
The printer's optimum image processing throughput via a dedicated
Ethernet connection is about 200 Kbytes per second (12 Mbytes per minute).
Actual throughput will generally be somewhat slower than this, depending
on network traffic, image complexity, color correction, and memory
configuration.
For details on the printer's paper-marking speed, see "Specifications" on
page A-13.