Tektronix 560 user manual Improving print speed, Relative port speed, Fastest print time

7Troubleshooting

Improving print speed

There are different ways to improve print speed, such as by upgrading to EtherTalk on a Macintosh, to Novell NetWare on a PC, or to TCP/IP on a workstation. For more information, request a document catalog from HAL or EuroHAL, the Tektronix automated fax systems. Refer to page 7-3 for instructions on using these systems.

Relative port speed

Ethernet and Token Ring are the fastest ports, followed by the parallel port, the LocalTalk port, then the serial port.

Fastest print time

The total print time depends on the following:

■Image complexity

■Image size

■Type of port used and network traffic

■Printer’s memory configuration

■Print quality mode selected

■Color correction mode selected

■If Image Smoothing is activated

■Number of non-resident fonts used

Of these elements, only the time contributed by the printer’s paper-marking speed (the time it takes the printer to put the toner on the paper once it has received the processed image) is predictable; the others can vary greatly depending on your system configuration and the type of image you are printing. However, the Phaser 560 printer’s PostScript interpreter combines very fast image processing and communication with sophisticated memory management to keep the total print time to a minimum.

For the fastest printing speed, refer to “Using simple color conversions” on page 5-23.

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