Increasing the Print Speed

Follow the instructions in this section to select settings that increase the print speed.

Just as printing at a high resolution requires more processing time than printing at a low resolution, printing in color takes longer than printing in black-and-white because the volume of data in a color image is much greater. For this reason, it is important to be selective in your use of color printing if you also require a fast print speed.

However, even if your image requires the highest resolution and extensive use of color—for example, when you are printing a camera-ready composite that includes color photographs—it may still be possible to optimize the print speed by adjusting other printing conditions. Keep in mind that changing some conditions to increase the print speed may also lower print quality.

The following table shows the factors that inversely affect print speed and print quality (increasing one will decrease the other).

Print quality Print speed		Lower Faster	Higher Slower	Printer driver menu
Printer driver settings	Enhance Fine Details	Off	On	Main menu (Windows), Print dialog box (Macintosh)
Data characteristics	Image size	Small	Large	-
Data characteristics	Resolution	Low	High	-

Print speed		Faster	Slower	Printer driver menu
Printer driver settings	Orientation	Portrait	Landscape	Main menu (Windows), Page Setup dialog box (Macintosh)
	Black & White, Sepia	Off	On	Main menu (Windows), Print dialog box (Macintosh)
	Auto Correction	Off	On	Main menu (Windows), Page Print dialog box (Macintosh)
Hardware resources	System Speed	Faster	Slower	-
	Free hard disk space	Large	Small
	Available memory	Large	Small
Software status	Running applications	One	Many	-

You can increase print speed by selecting certain settings in the Speed & Progress window. Click the Speed & Progress button on your printer driver’s Maintenance window. The following screen appears.

Print speed	Faster	Slower
High Speed Copies	On	Off
Always spool RAW datatype	On	Off
Page Rendering Mode	On	Off
Print as Bitmap	On	Off