Canon BJ-30 manual Ways to Improve Print Speed in Windows, Add a permanent swap file in Windows

5.Select OK to close the Printer Setup window.

6.Choose Print from the File menu.

7.After making any necessary changes to the printing parameters, select OK to start the print job.

NIt’s a good idea to turn off the Print Manager if you are feeding paper manually. To do so, clear the Use Print Manager check box in the Printers dialog box within the Control Panel.

If you are feeding paper manually and using the spooler, the printer goes off-line before printing each page to allow you to insert paper.

Ways to Improve Print Speed in Windows

To improve printing speed, you can try the following:

❏Turn off the Print Manager in the Windows Control Panel.

This avoids the extra step of sending the print file to the Print Manager and may increase your printing speed by as much as 25%, depending on the computer you are using. (See the next section for details.)

❏Add a permanent swap file in Windows.

Under the 386 Enhanced icon in the Windows Control Panel, add or create a permanent swap file that is from 4 MB to 9 MB. The computer will be able to prepare the print file faster. See your Windows documentation for instructions.

❏Avoid diffusion halftones.

In the Options dialog box, choose Diffusion only when printing final output or photographic images. Choosing Pattern1 or Pattern2 allows documents to print as much as 20% faster because the computer does not need to compute to “best possible position” for each dot.

❏Free up your memory.

Use only one software program at a time and unload any screen saving utilities or programs stored in Windows background; this frees up more memory for Windows processing.

❏Use Black and White when possible.

If you will be printing text in black ink only, choose Black and White rather than Grayscale.

❏Use high speed (draft) modes.

The printer will need to image fewer dots.

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