3Printing Basics

Print quality modes

Using the printer drivers provided with your printer, you can select from three print quality modes:

Fast Color Produces the fastest full-color prints. This print-quality mode is not available for transparency printing. Transparency prints made with this setting are printed using the Standard print-quality mode instead.

Standard The default print-quality setting for full-color printing. Select this print-quality mode for the fastest printing of transparencies.

Enhanced (600 x 300) Available with the Phaser 380 printerÕs Extended Features option. Used for PANTONE Color matching (set TekColor Correction to None). For paper printing, select this print-quality mode for the best text quality and the smoothest color blends. For transparency printing, select this print-quality mode to produce transparencies with the most vibrant colors, the smoothest color gradations and color sweeps, and the highest durability.

Print speed

Print speeds listed in the following table are based on the time it takes the printer to make a single print. Printing of Tabloid Maximum-size transparency is supported only from the manual feed slot.

Print-quality mode

Paper print speed

Transparency print speed

 

 

 

Fast Color

A4/Letter: 3.5 ppm

A4/Letter: not supported

 

A3/Tabloid Maximum: 2.0 ppm

A3/Tabloid Maximum: not supported

 

 

 

Standard

A4/Letter: 2.5 ppm

A4/Letter: 1.5 ppm

 

A3/Tabloid Maximum: 1.3 ppm

A3/Tabloid Maximum: manual feed slot

 

 

 

Enhanced (600 x 300)

A4/Letter: 1.2 ppm

A4/Letter: 0.64 ppm

 

A3/Tabloid Maximum: 0.6 ppm

A3/Tabloid Maximum: manual feed slot

 

 

 

ppm is pages per minute

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Tektronix PHASER 380 manual Print quality modes, Print speed