HP Designjet L25500 Printer Series - Add New Substrate and Image Quality Troubleshooting procedures

HP Designjet L25500 printer series Add New Substrate and Image Quality Troubleshooting
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5. HOW TO PRINT FASTER
The “Add New Substrate” procedure already described will give you sellable indoor print quality for the
majority of available substrates. However, sometimes substrates support faster printing while providing
adequate quality for many applications.
This section describes tips to speed up printing:
• Decrease the number of passes. Bear in mind that:
o 8-pass printing may have more graininess than 10 passes and beyond.
o 4- and 6-pass printing is more sensitive to substrate advance problems.
o 4- and 6-pass printing may provide better results if the ink quantity is reduced in the RIP.
o 4- and 6-pass printing may need lower ink usage for the ink to dry properly.
o High-ink-limit printing is available only for 10 passes or more.
o Decreasing passes may make it more difficult to find an appropriate curing temperature
setting, and may make it more sensitive to ambient temperature and humidity conditions.
• Take advantage of the “concatenated plots” feature
If a job is sent while the previous one is being printed, the plots are concatenated and then
finishing time is saved.
• Disable the cutter
In most substrates this speeds up the Finishing Print stage.