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Using Various Print Functions

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This section briefly describes various print functions that you can use to make
printouts appropriate for your purposes. For details about the functions below,
see the printer driver Help.

Print quality and color tone can be adjusted to suit the print data. Some of the
print quality settings you can configure are described below. For details, see the
printer driver Help.

❖ Printing color documents in black and white

Because black and white printing is faster than color printing, this is more ef-
ficient for documents that do not need to be printed in color. Also, the black
produced in black and white printing is a more distinct black than that pro-
duced in color printing.

❖ Saving color toner when printing

You can save color toner by printing graphics and images with less than the
usual amount of toner. Text is printed as usual so that it remains clear and
easy to read.
This function is not available with Mac OS X.

❖ Changing the image printing method

You can select to print with priority on print quality or print speed. When
printing images, the higher the resolution of images, the longer the time re-
quired for printing.

❖ Changing the dither pattern

A dither pattern is a pattern of dots used to simulate a color or shade of an
image. If the pattern is changed, the characteristics of the image will also
change. You can select a pattern suitable for the image to be printed.

❖ Changing the color profiling pattern

You can select a color profiling pattern to adjust the tone of colors according
to the colors displayed on the computer screen.
Because colors on the computer screen are created using the three RGB colors
while colors for printing are composed of the four CMYK colors, colors need
to be converted during the printing process. Therefore, images on the printed
paper may look different from those on the computer screen if adjustment is
not performed.

❖ Printing grayscale images using black or CMYK

You can print black or gray parts of an image using black toner only, instead
of using all CMYK toners. Compared to the black printed with CMYK toner,
this results in a black that is flatter and purer.