Printing Basics

4

Print-quality modes

Mode

Resolution

Printing speed

Description

 

(dots per inch)

(pages per minute)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fast Monochrome

600 x 600 dpi

14 ppm

Fastest grayscale printing.

 

 

 

Recommended for documents containing large

 

 

 

 

amounts of black text.

 

 

 

 

 

Fast Color

600 x 600 dpi

5 ppm

Fastest full-color output.

 

 

 

When printing raster image data or color

 

 

 

 

graphics, this mode provides excellent output

 

 

 

 

using CMY toners.

 

 

 

Not recommended for documents containing

 

 

 

 

large amounts of black text.

 

 

 

 

 

Presentation

600 x 600 dpi

Color

Smoothest and brightest large-area fills.

 

 

4 ppm

Useful for printing paper copies of overhead

 

 

 

 

 

Monochrome

 

presentations.

 

 

14 ppm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Standard

600 x 600 dpi

Color

General-purpose mode for full-color printing.

 

 

4 ppm

 

 

Monochrome

14 ppm

Premium

1200 x 1200 dpi

Color

 

 

2 ppm

 

 

Monochrome

 

 

7 ppm

Requires the Extended Features option (including a minimum of 24 Mbytes of memory).

Highest quality color prints.

Near-photographic detail.

If you select Premium mode but the printer does not have the Extended Features option and sufficient memory installed, prints are made in Standard mode.

Note For all of the print modes, you can get faster overall throughput when more memory is installed.

User Manual

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Tektronix 560 user manual Print-quality modes