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Printing color and mono jobs
Printing color and
mono jobs
You can choose whether your printer handles all pages as
if they contain color, or adjusts mechanically when it rec-
ognizes a mono page—one which requires black toner
only. The adjustment for mono jobs significantly slows
overall printing time, but also extends the life of printer
supplies. If you’re interested in conserving printer sup-
plies and reducing the overall cost of printing, you may
want to change the Printer Usage setting in the Setup
Menu to Maximum Yield.
When shipped from the factory, your printer is designed
to deliver the fastest possible printing of all jobs: color and
mono. When the Printer Usage menu item is set to the
default, Maximum Speed, the printer does not make any
mechanical adjustments when it detects mono pages.
Although it lays only black toner on the page, it does not
remove the color print units from the paper path. This
results in fast throughput, but at the cost of some wear on
the color photoconductors and the developer rolls within
the color toner cartridges.
Toner Saver
What Why When
Off Enhances the quality of printed text by
smoothing the edges of individual
characters.
• You need the best possible quality for
text and business graphics.
• You value quality over economy.
On Reduces toner consumption without
markedly affecting the quality of the printed
output.
• You want to conserve your supply of
toner and reduce printing costs.
• You’re printing drafts or review copies
that don’t require fully saturated colors.
• Your jobs consist largely of text and
graphics, which are affected the least by
setting Toner Saver On.
Black Yellow Cyan Magenta
Transport belt
Maximum Speed
(paper path for color and mono pages)
