HP 882c (English) Macintosh Connect * User's Guide - C6413-90023 - Page 79

More About Your Printer and Supplies, Maintaining Your Printer, Increasing Printer Performance - printer driver

Page 79 highlights

6More About Your Printer and Supplies Maintaining Your Printer • Use a soft cloth moistened with water to wipe off dust, smudges, and stains. • The interior of the printer does not require cleaning. Keep fluids away from the interior of the printer. • Do not lubricate the rod on which the inkjet print cartridge cradles move. Noise is normal when the cradle is moving back and forth within the printer. Increasing Printer Performance The print speed and overall performance of your printer can be affected by several things: • The amount of RAM in your computer can determine how fast your documents are sent to the printer. Increasing the amount of RAM in your computer can speed up this process as well as make your computer work more efficiently when you are doing something besides printing. • The printer driver that you are using to print your documents can make a significant difference in the quality of your printed output. Make sure you are using an up-to-date version of an HP printer driver designed specifically for your printer model. Go to "Printer Software" on page 68 for information on how to get an updated printer driver. • The size and complexity of the documents you print can make a difference in your printer's performance. Graphics and photographs are usually more complex and print more slowly than a document that contains only text. • The processing speed of your computer determines how fast your document is sent to the printer. • The amount of free space on your computer's hard disk makes a difference in printing speed. If your computer has less than 100 MB of free space, it can take longer to process your document for printing. • Running numerous software programs at one time slows down printing, because they are using the RAM in your computer. Therefore, limit the number of programs or documents you open at one time. 72

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
  • 10
  • 11
  • 12
  • 13
  • 14
  • 15
  • 16
  • 17
  • 18
  • 19
  • 20
  • 21
  • 22
  • 23
  • 24
  • 25
  • 26
  • 27
  • 28
  • 29
  • 30
  • 31
  • 32
  • 33
  • 34
  • 35
  • 36
  • 37
  • 38
  • 39
  • 40
  • 41
  • 42
  • 43
  • 44
  • 45
  • 46
  • 47
  • 48
  • 49
  • 50
  • 51
  • 52
  • 53
  • 54
  • 55
  • 56
  • 57
  • 58
  • 59
  • 60
  • 61
  • 62
  • 63
  • 64
  • 65
  • 66
  • 67
  • 68
  • 69
  • 70
  • 71
  • 72
  • 73
  • 74
  • 75
  • 76
  • 77
  • 78
  • 79
  • 80
  • 81
  • 82
  • 83
  • 84
  • 85
  • 86
  • 87
  • 88
  • 89
  • 90
  • 91
  • 92
  • 93
  • 94
  • 95
  • 96
  • 97
  • 98

72
6
More About Your Printer and Supplies
Maintaining Your Printer
Use a soft cloth moistened with water to wipe off dust, smudges, and stains.
The interior of the printer does not require cleaning. Keep fluids away from the
interior of the printer.
Do not lubricate the rod on which the inkjet print cartridge cradles move. Noise is
normal when the cradle is moving back and forth within the printer.
Increasing Printer Performance
The print speed and overall performance of your printer can be affected by several
things:
The amount of RAM in your computer can determine how fast your documents
are sent to the printer. Increasing the amount of RAM in your computer can
speed up this process as well as make your computer work more efficiently when
you are doing something besides printing.
The printer driver that you are using to print your documents can make a
significant difference in the quality of your printed output. Make sure you are
using an up-to-date version of an HP printer driver designed specifically for
your printer model. Go to “Printer Software” on page 68 for information on how
to get an updated printer driver.
The size and complexity of the documents you print can make a difference in
your printer’s performance. Graphics and photographs are usually more
complex and print more slowly than a document that contains only text.
The processing speed of your computer determines how fast your document is
sent to the printer.
The amount of free space on your computer’s hard disk makes a difference in
printing speed. If your computer has less than 100 MB of free space, it can take
longer to process your document for printing.
Running numerous software programs at one time slows down printing, because
they are using the RAM in your computer. Therefore, limit the number of
programs or documents you open at one time.