To determine whether you need to enable DMA transfer, compare the message below the EPSON Printer Port check box to this table, and take the recommended action.ĭMA transfer is already enabled. See your computer manual to determine if it supports ECP mode and DMA transfer. If your computer has a parallel port which supports ECP mode, you can enable DMA transfer to speed up printing. Use DMA transfer (for Windows 98 and 95 only) This setting is unavailable when your printer is connected via the USB port. This speeds up the data transfer rate to EPSON printers. Select this check box to enable the EPSON printer port, which is optimized for EPSON printers, instead of the Windows default printer port. This speeds up printing by using your hard disk space as a cache when printing multiple copies of your document.ĮPSON Printer Port (for Windows 98 and 95 only) Select this check box to turn on high-speed printing for multiple copies. The following settings are available in the Speed & Progress dialog box.

Click the Speed & Progress button on your printer software's Utility menu. You can make certain print speed settings in the Speed & Progress dialog box. ** Grayscale means using black ink only to print varying shades of gray, from pure black to pure white. * Varies depending on the printer driver and application that you are using. The table below shows the factors related to print speed only. The following table shows the factors that inversely affect print speed and print quality (increasing one will decrease the other). Keep in mind that changing some conditions to increase the print speed may also lower print quality. However, even if your document requires the highest resolution and extensive use of color for example, when you are printing a camera-ready composite that includes color photographs it may still be possible to optimize the print speed by adjusting other printing conditions. For this reason, it is important to be selective in your use of color if you also require a fast print speed. Just as printing at a high resolution requires more processing time than printing at a low resolution, printing in color takes longer than printing in black because the volume of data in a color document is much greater. Making Configure LPT Port settings (for Windows NT 4.0 only)įollow the instructions in this section to increase the printing speed of your printer. Making Speed & Progress settings (not available for Windows 3.1)

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