can someone explain what these things mean, line by line?

i mean i know the obvious things (paper size, copy count, DPI)

i just really hate printers and want to make sure this is setup ideally.

thanks in advance!

7/1/2011 8:09:51 AM

pdf printer?

just leave all of those as they are if you're just doing "regular" printing

[Edited on July 1, 2011 at 8:20 AM. Reason : .]

7/1/2011 8:20:02 AM

"ideally" is a matter of application

7/1/2011 10:35:26 AM

The only thing that looks questionable is your paper size and dpi. Unless you're trying to optimize for minimal ink or toner. But ~100dpi is going to suuuuuuuuuck.

7/1/2011 10:38:44 AM

144dpi is fine for text, you'll want 200+dpi for images minimum, 300dpi "ideally"

7/1/2011 10:43:25 AM

^ it's not fine for text I'd want to read

7/1/2011 11:00:16 AM

Quote :

"can someone explain what these things mean, line by line?"

Come on, guys. Read. He wants to understand what each line means so he can be more proficient at printing.

7/1/2011 11:02:58 AM

....ugh. The truth is that 99% of these options are irrelevant to the average printer.

If i remember correctly here are some to fill in holes. I'm sure others can fill in the holes.

-ICM is a method for allowing programs to directly control color reproduction at the driver level. If you don't have a $500 printer paired to a calibrated monitor you're wasting your time.

-TrueType Font. You've got 2 ways to print - send the text as data and reproduce it on the printer, or send the whole thing as an image and reproduce that. The first method is MUCH more efficient. The tricky bit is that now the font file has to be sent. To save this time manufacturers include common fonts in the printer firmware. So now if you print a page of text just the text data (extremely small) is sent to the printer and the onboard font is used to render and produce the image. Flip this off and you'll see a 3-5X increase in print time for text based prints. No effect on graphic based prints.

-Scaling. You can force the printer to print something smaller/larger AFTER it's sent to the driver. For instance if you wanted to print it at half size since you're using free paper or expensive toner.

-Advanced features: This could be anything from full duplex support to ethernet support. Model dependent; but usually these features include an extended caching feature - which speeds up large prints.

-Pages per sheet. if you print 4 pages on 1 page they can be arranged thus:
AB AC
CD BD
The left one is "right then down"

-PostScript Options. These are generally explained in the truetype explanation above. Turn off downloading and it will print with whatever it's default is. Language level defines what format the data will arrive in, etc.

7/1/2011 11:18:23 AM