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Personal Laser Printers Roundup: Monochrome Printing (page 12)

Category: Other

by Vasily Melnik

[ 01/19/2006 | 06:23 PM ]

Drivers and Settings

The settings are not very variegated. The main window is where you select the paper size and orientation and the number of copies. The single resolution available is 600dpi – the printing mechanism can’t yield anything better, while lower resolutions are useless because you wouldn’t have a much higher speed using a lower resolution, but the quality would surely suffer. The other tabs don’t contain any really valuable settings.

You can access some interesting parameters in the dialog window that appears after your clicking the More button. You can particularly select the fill density and the dot matrix density (two positions). If you set the radio button at No, the printer won’t print gray tones, but only black and white, and you may want to use this mode for documents with colored text. In the graphical mode colored text would be printed by means of dithering rather than of solid color fill and wouldn’t look quite good. You can also enable toner saving in this dialog window.