Canon Color Bubble Jet BJC-4400 Series, Service Reference Manual

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Chapter 2 Using the Printer With Windows 2-13
For Monochrome Printing
Use the BC-20 Black BJ Cartridge to optimize the printer’s performance
when you are printing black text and graphics only.
In the BJC-4400 Series Printer Driver for Windows, choose the following
settings to tell your printer to print using black ink only.
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Media Type—Plain Paper
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Print Quality—Standard
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Color Model—Monochrome
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Print Model—Automatic
Other Ways to Improve Print Speed in Windows
To improve printing speed, you can try the following:
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Turn off the Print Manager in the Windows Control Panel
(Windows 3.1 only)
This avoids the extra step of sending the print file to the Print
Manager and may increase your printing speed by as much as 25%,
depending on the computer you are using.
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Add a permanent swap file in Windows 3.1
Under the 386 Enhanced icon in the Windows Control Panel, add or
create a permanent swap file that is from 4 MB to 9 MB. The
computer will be able to prepare the print file faster. See your
Windows documentation for instructions.
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Avoid diffusion halftones
In the Custom Settings dialog box, choose Diffusion only when
printing final output or photographic images. Choosing a Halftone
setting of Fine allows documents to print as much as 20% faster
because the computer does not need to compute to “best possible
position” for each dot.
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Avoid screen matched color
In the Custom Settings dialog box, avoid Match as the Color
Adjustment setting. The screen matching feature takes longer to
process in the computer because it requires special information.
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