i860 print speed....

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Based on posts here and reviews at an online store, I bought meself a
Canon i860. It prints fast b/w, but the color stuff i've tried has left
me unimpressed. Here's the situation....

One laptop, with Win98, 160M Ram, PIII, 300MHz using MS Publisher98. I
create a flyer (real estate oriented) with multiple photos. After I
click print, it takes 1 minute for printer to pull paper to start
printing. Then takes another 2'45" to finish. That's about as slow as
the lexmark i replaced.

Other laptop, WinXP Pro, Centrino 1.5M, 500M Ram using OpenOffice1.1.0
Draw, similar flyer takes about as long to print. I then turned off ECP
mode and indentify paper type and print was about a minute faster (only
took 15 seconds to start, but a full two minutes to print the page.)....

So, anything i can do to speed it up?? Or is this to be expected given
the multiple photos?? Is there a printer setting i can change??

These were all done with standard print quality.

Thanks for the advice.


Regards,
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[gary]

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Do you have the usb port connected? I just bought the 960 and am very
impressed with the speed. I have a slow USB port on my old computer.


"X" <libertywin@dozeintrex.net> wrote in message
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> X-no-archive: yes
> archive:no
>
> Based on posts here and reviews at an online store, I bought meself a
> Canon i860. It prints fast b/w, but the color stuff i've tried has left
> me unimpressed. Here's the situation....
>
> One laptop, with Win98, 160M Ram, PIII, 300MHz using MS Publisher98. I
> create a flyer (real estate oriented) with multiple photos. After I
> click print, it takes 1 minute for printer to pull paper to start
> printing. Then takes another 2'45" to finish. That's about as slow as
> the lexmark i replaced.
>
> Other laptop, WinXP Pro, Centrino 1.5M, 500M Ram using OpenOffice1.1.0
> Draw, similar flyer takes about as long to print. I then turned off ECP
> mode and indentify paper type and print was about a minute faster (only
> took 15 seconds to start, but a full two minutes to print the page.)....
>
> So, anything i can do to speed it up?? Or is this to be expected given
> the multiple photos?? Is there a printer setting i can change??
>
> These were all done with standard print quality.
>
> Thanks for the advice.
>
>
> Regards,
> X
>
> delete win doze to reply directly
>