Halftone Features (Advanced Option) - NEC 870 - SuperScript B/W Laser Printer Online User's Manual

Imaging Mode (Advanced Option)
The SuperScript 870 Windows Printer Driver can
image the page in several different ways. The
Imaging Mode area lets you fine tune your image
quality and manage the trade-off between print
quality and print speed.
Note: Not all image files will print
correctly in all modes. For best results, try
each of the three manual modes. You may
also try printing your image with Color
smoothing (described in "Halftone
Features") turned off.
Automatically select best imaging mode
Choose this option to have the driver select the
imaging mode based on the program that is
printing the document. This option will print
most print jobs correctly.
Manually select imaging mode
• Choose Optimize for text and spreadsheets to
ensure that print speed is fastest when
printing documents that contain lots of
horizontal and vertical lines, such as
spreadsheets or tables and text.
• Choose Optimize for graphics and photos to
ensure that documents with graphic images
print at their best quality. In this mode,
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everything except for fonts is sent as graphic
data. This reduces the amount of data sent to
the printer for complex pages and may
produce better output in some instances.
• Choose Image entire page as graphic to ensure
the best possible match between what you see
on the screen and what is printed. When this
option is selected, the entire page, including
fonts, is sent as a single graphic image to the
printer. This is slower, but in some cases may
produce more accurate matching between
printed output and the screen than the other
modes.

Halftone Features (Advanced Option)

The SuperScript 870 Windows Printer Driver lets
you fine tune the way colors in graphics images
are converted to gray dot patterns.
Choosing Optimize for laser print output improves
the quality of graphics printing by using specially-
optimized grayscale patterns to print graphics.
Choosing this option gives you two further
choices:
• Fine, which provides smoother grays and fills.
• Standard, which provides faster printing, but
may result in courser grays.
Choosing Optimize for photocopy reproduction uses a
circular half-tone dot method for reproducing
grays. This produces better final results if you will
be photocopying your printed pages.
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