Lexmark 1200 manual Printing color and mono jobs, Toner Saver

Toner Saver

What	Why	When
Off	Enhances the quality of printed text by	• You need the best possible quality for
	smoothing the edges of individual	text and business graphics.
	characters.	• You value quality over economy.
On	Reduces toner consumption without	• You want to conserve your supply of
	markedly affecting the quality of the printed	toner and reduce printing costs.
	output.	• You’re printing drafts or review copies
		that don’t require fully saturated colors.
		• Your jobs consist largely of text and
		graphics, which are affected the least by
		setting Toner Saver On.

Printing color and mono jobs

Maximum Speed

(paper path for color and mono pages)

Black Yellow Cyan Magenta

You can choose whether your printer handles all pages as if they contain color, or adjusts mechanically when it rec- ognizes a mono page—one which requires black toner only. The adjustment for mono jobs significantly slows overall printing time, but also extends the life of printer supplies. If you’re interested in conserving printer sup- plies and reducing the overall cost of printing, you may want to change the Printer Usage setting in the Setup Menu to Maximum Yield.

When shipped from the factory, your printer is designed to deliver the fastest possible printing of all jobs: color and mono. When the Printer Usage menu item is set to the default, Maximum Speed, the printer does not make any mechanical adjustments when it detects mono pages. Although it lays only black toner on the page, it does not remove the color print units from the paper path. This results in fast throughput, but at the cost of some wear on the color photoconductors and the developer rolls within the color toner cartridges.

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