Brother MFC 7050C owner manual Color/Monochrome, Print Quality, Black, White and Grayscale, 16-8

Color/Monochrome

Color

When your document contains color and you want to print it in color, in the Color/Quality tab select this mode. Only generic colors will appear on the printout (unless you also select color matching).

Black, White and Grayscale

Select this mode if your document has only black and gray scale text and/or objects. This mode makes the print processing speed faster than color mode. If your document contains color, selecting black, white and grayscale mode prints your document in 256 levels of gray scale.

Print Quality

In the Color/Quality tab select the print quality. The print quality and speed are related. Higher quality takes a longer time to print.

Draft: 300 x 600 dpi. Recommended mode for ordinary printouts. Good print quality with comfortable printing speed.

Normal: 600 x 600 dpi. Better print quality than Quick Print and faster print speed than High.

High: 1200 x 1200 dpi. Use this mode to print precise images such as photographs. Since the print data is much larger than Quick Print mode, processing time, data transfer time, and printing time will be longer.

Print Quality setting, in combination with Media Type setting (from Paper tab), will determine the print resolution and swathing technique used by the Brother MFC-7050C Series driver.

An internal parameter called “RIP Memory” will be implicitly set based on Print Quality. RIP Memory is the amount of RAM the Brother MFC-7050C Series driver uses for rasterization. For Draft mode, RIP memory will be set to some percentage of physical memory installed on the PC. For Normal and High modes, it will be set to some percentage of the available virtual memory on the PC. Restricting the workspace to physical memory for draft mode will result in faster printing, although for complex pages may result in poor print quality (depending on page complexity and amount of RAM present). Using available virtual memory (i.e., disk storage) will prevent poor print quality, although it may increase print time.

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