Printing Basics
4
User Manual
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Print-quality modes
Note
For all of the print modes, you can get faster overall throughput
when more memory is installed.
Mode Resolution
(dots per inch)
Printing speed
(pages per minute)
Description
Fast Monochrome
600 x 600 dpi 14 ppm
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Fastest grayscale printing.
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Recommended for documents containing large
amounts of black text.
Fast Color
600 x 600 dpi 5 ppm
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Fastest full-color output.
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When printing raster image data or color
graphics, this mode provides excellent output
using CMY toners.
■
Not recommended for documents containing
large amounts of black text.
Presentation
600 x 600 dpi
Color
4 ppm
Monochrome
14 ppm
■
Smoothest and brightest large-area fills.
■
Useful for printing paper copies of overhead
presentations.
Standard
600 x 600 dpi
Color
4 ppm
Monochrome
14 ppm
■
General-purpose mode for full-color printing.
Premium
1200 x 1200 dpi
Color
2 ppm
Monochrome
7 ppm
■
Requires the Extended Features option
(including a minimum of 24 Mbytes of memory).
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Highest quality color prints.
■
Near-photographic detail.
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If you select
Premium
mode but the printer
does not have the Extended Features option
and sufficient memory installed, prints are
made in
Standard
mode.