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Troubleshooting
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Phaser 560 Color Laser Printer
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:
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Image complexity
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Image size
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Type of port used and network traffic
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Printer’s memory configuration
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Print quality mode selected
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Color correction mode selected
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If
Image Smoothing
is activated
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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.
