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Advanced Printing Features
When the Advanced Printing Features setting is Enabled, metafile spooling is turned on and
Finishing tab options such as Page Order, Booklet Layout, and Pages per Sheet are available,
depending on the product.
Enhanced metafile spooling is used to greatly reduce the amount of time that elapses between a
request to print (initiated by a software program) and the return of control to the software program by
the operating system.
For normal printing, leave the Advanced Printing Features setting at the default (Enabled). If
compatibility problems occur, you can disable the feature. However, some advanced printing features
might still appear in the printer driver, even though they have been disabled. If you select an
advanced printing feature in the printer driver that has been disabled on the Advanced tab, the
feature is automatically re-enabled.
Printer Features
The Printer Features setting contains the following controls:
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Print All Text as Black
The feature is Disabled by default. When Enabled is selected, the driver prints all text as black
regardless of the original document text color. Color text is printed as black, except for white
text, which remains white. (White text is a reliable method of printing reverse typeface against a
dark background.) This setting does not affect graphic images on the page, nor does it affect any
text that is part of a graphic.
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Send True Type as Bitmap
Send True Type as Bitmap provides an alternative for software programs that have trouble
using TrueType fonts for special graphic aspects such as shading, rotation, or slanting. The
setting is Disabled (off) by default. The TrueType fonts are converted to bitmap soft fonts before
downloading. The Enabled setting causes the driver to send TrueType fonts to the product as
outlines, which retains the standard format (outline) of the fonts.
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Raster Compression
Use the Raster Compression feature to select the graphics-compression method:
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Automatic. The software determines the best compression method to use.
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Best Quality. This option forces the software to use a lossless compression method.
(Lossless means that no data is lost during compression.)
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Maximum Compression. Where applicable, this option requires the software to always
use a lossy compression method (some data is lost).
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Print Data Optimization
When selected, this feature allows the print job to use the host memory to ensure quick and
high-quality printing. The print speed increases without any print quality degradation.
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