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Printing and Previewing Labels
Optimize the Printing Speed
11/29/2011 13857L-003
Optimize the Printing Speed
There are many factors that affect the printing speed. By following the guidelines below you
can dramatically increase the speed of printing:
• If your printer supports parallel and serial ports, use the parallel port. Your computer can
send data to the printer over a parallel port much faster than over serial port.
• Use the printer’s internal fonts instead of Windows’ true-type fonts. True-type fonts must
be sent to the printer as graphics and the size of the file is much bigger (kilobytes). When
using internal fonts, only the text is sent to the printer (couple of bytes). If you must use
true-type fonts, use the Font Downloader program, to download these fonts to the printer’s
memory and access these fonts as internal printer fonts (only if your printer supports this).
• When using bar codes, make sure that you do not print bar codes as graphics if your
printer supports printing bar codes.
• When using counters, the printer will internally increment the numbers if the internal fonts
are used (if supported by the printer). This means, that the printer will receive only the
first number of objects, and will later increment this number to print other labels. Using
this option also reduces the amount of data transferred between computer and printer, but
the difference is noticeable only with high quantities of labels.
• Set the printing speed to a higher value (if your printer supports it). Note that setting the
printing speed usually affects the quality of printing. The higher the speed, the lower the
quality.