Printing Speed Versus ColourThe SmartJet Printer Driver for Windows can interpret and translate the fullspectrum of colours, up to 16.7 million colours. When printing in colour,there is a significant increase in the amount of information that the driverhas to interpret and translate. When printing black ink only, the driver hasonly one colour to interpret.By decreasing the amount of colours that the printer driver has to interpret,you can significantly decrease the time needed to translate the information.This will speed up the overall printing process.For Quick Colour PrintingIn the SmartJet Printer Driver for Windows, choose the following printoptions. These selections allow the printer driver to interpret and translate256 colours, which will increase your printing speed. However, your printquality will not be optimized.• Paper Type - Plain Paper• Print Quality - Fast DraftFor High Quality Colour PrintingFor the SmartJet, select the print options shown below to allow the printerdriver to interpret and translate up to 16.7 million colours. Keep in mindthat your print speed will be slower than with other setting combinations.• Paper Type - Glossy/Photo Paper• Print Quality - HighFor Monochrome PrintingUse the black cartridge to optimize the printer’s performance when you areprinting black text and graphics only.In the printer driver, choose the following print options to tell yourSmartJet to print using black ink only.• Paper Type - Plain Paper• Print Quality - Normal• Document Type - Black Only2.14 Printing04-Print 2/5/99 10:05 AM Page 14
