Quality & Media (Print Dialog Box)

If you select Quality & Media from the pop-up menu in the Print dialog box, you can specify the settings for basic printing appropriate to your printer.

(1) Media Type

Ensure that this setting matches the media loaded in the printer.

(2) Print Mode

Select the print mode appropriate to your document. If you select Detailed Setting , you can set Print Quality and Halftoning.

(3) Print Quality

This control appears when you select Detailed Setting from Print Mode.

Move the slide bar to adjust the balance between print quality and print speed.

Moving the bar to the right enhances print quality, and moving it to the left increases the printing speed.

(4) Halftoning

This control appears when you select Detailed Setting from Print Mode.

Set halftoning method.

Select either Dither or Diffusion ink dot configurations.

Dither is a suitable method to print pictures and graphs where you wish to clearly define the difference between colors.

Diffusion is a suitable method to print graphics and photographs where there are subtle color gradations.

(5) Grayscale Printing

Select to print a grayscale version (black and white) of a color document.