Select print quality

The printer has various print-quality options because best-quality printing requires some loss of speed, while fast printing implies some reduction in print quality.

Therefore, the standard print-quality selector is a slider that allows you to choose between quality and speed. With some paper types, you can choose a compromise position between the two.

Alternatively, you can select from the custom options: Best, Normal and Fast. If you select Fast, you can also select Economode, which uses a lower rendering resolution and consumes less ink. It therefore increases printing speed even further, but reduces print quality. Economode can be selected only from the custom options (not from the slider).

There is also two supplementary custom options that may have an effect on print quality: Maximum Detail and More Passes. See High-quality printing on page 77.

NOTE: In the Windows driver dialog, the rendering resolution for your job is displayed in the Custom Print Quality Options dialog box (select Custom options and then Settings).

You can select print-quality options in the following ways:

●In the Windows driver dialog: go to the Paper/Quality tab and look at the Print Quality section. If you select Standard Options, you will see a simple slider with which you can select speed or quality. If you select Custom Options, you will see the more specific options described above.

●In the Mac OS X Print dialog: go to the Paper/Quality panel and look at the Quality Options section. If you select Standard quality options, you will see a simple slider with which you can select speed or quality. If you select Custom quality options, you will see the more specific options described above.

●On the Embedded Web Server's Submit Job page: select Basic settings > Print quality. If you then select Standard options, you can choose between Speed and Quality. If you select Custom options, you will see the more specific options described above.

●Using the front panel: press , then , then Setup > Printing preferences > Print quality.

NOTE: If the print quality is set from your computer, it overrides the print-quality setting in the front panel.

NOTE: You cannot change the print quality of pages that the printer is already receiving or has already received (even if they have not started to print yet).

Select paper size

The paper size can be specified in the following ways.

NOTE: The paper size specified here should be the paper size in which the document was created. It is possible to rescale the document to a different size for printing. See Rescale a print on page 75.

●In the Windows driver dialog: select the Paper/Quality tab, then select your paper size from the Document Size list.

●In the Mac OS X Print dialog: select your printer, then select your paper size from the Paper Size list.

NOTE: If your application offers no Page Setup dialog, please use the Print dialog.

●On the Embedded Web Server's Submit Job page: select Advanced settings > Paper > Page size > Standard.

●Using the front panel: press , then , then Setup > Printing preferences > Paper options > Paper size.

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