Printing with Windows

Increasing the Print Speed

General tips
Using Speed & Progress

Follow the instructions in this section to increase the printing speed of your printer.

General tips

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

However, even if your document 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	Print Quality	Economy, Normal	Photo	Advanced dialog box
	High Speed	On	Off
	Halftoning	High Speed Halftoning	High Quality Halftoning
	Finest Detail	Off	On
Data characteristics	Image size	Small	Large
Data characteristics	Resolution	Low	High

The table below shows the factors related to print speed only.

Print speed		Faster	Slower	Printer driver menu
Printer driver settings	Ink	Black	Color	Advanced dialog box, Main menu
	Flip Horizontal*	Off	On	Advanced dialog box
	Collate*	Off	On	Paper menu
	Reverse Order*	Off	On	Paper menu
Data characteristics	Variety of colors	Grayscale**	Full color
Hardware resources	System speed	Faster	Slower
	Hard Disk free space	Large	Small
	Memory free space	Large	Small
Software status	Running applications	One	Many
Software status	Virtual memory	Not in use	In use

* Varies depending on the printer driver and application software you are using.

** Grayscale means using black ink only to print varying shades of gray, from pure black to pure white.

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Using Speed & Progress

You can make certain print speed settings in the Speed & Progress dialog box. Click the Speed & Progress button on your printer software's Utility menu. The following dialog box appears.

High Speed Copies

Select this check box to turn on high-speed printing for multiple copies. This speeds up printing by using your hard disk space as a cache when printing multiple copies of your document.

EPSON Printer Port

Select this check box to enable the EPSON printer port, which is optimized for EPSON printers, instead of the Windows default printer port. This speeds up the data transfer rate to EPSON printers.

Note:

You cannot make this setting if your printer is connected with USB port.

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