2007-01-17 22:27:10 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Printers
The speed they are talking about is the speed the printer will print when it's up to speed.
And the speed referred to may be low resolution black&white A full color picture may take ages
Also
It may take 1 minute 52 seconds to print one page but then it will print 22 pages per minute there after.
A bit like me getting out of bed in the morning. Takes ages. But once up I'm ready to roll.
2007-01-17 22:44:17 · answer #1 · answered by Gowrie 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
22ppm tends to be for B&W text printing at low res. Basically its the printer manufacturer turning down all the settings to see how fast it can print.
If you are doing a full colour, high quaility, high res print then it will take more time as it needs to cover every single bit of the page with ink which takes up a lot of memory and a lot of time to process.
Do you need to print at such high res / high quality? If you are printing pictures from photos with the drop in costs I go to Boots as it is only about 10 - 15p per print for a professional quailty print on really high quality paper which once you work out the cost of the ink and paper you are buying its not far off and will be better quality than anything a home printer can produce.
I have a picture of my wife that I printed on so called Kodak Ultra paper on the maximum settings for quality on a 5 colour ink jet next to one from Boots and now it is starting to fade, there are fines showing and the blue tac is leaching through whereas the Boots one is 100% perfect.
2007-01-17 22:36:29 · answer #2 · answered by breezeycouk 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Revised answer. I had some time to think about this and having worked on printers, there is no for the printer to have to warm up each time for printing so you would have to add 3 seconds once, then it takes 5 seconds per print = 28 seconds in total. Now the collate option is just that an option. Information given doesn't always have to be used. I may be way off but it didn't indicate if its for one page.
2016-03-29 02:54:53 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The pages per minute are calculated on the lowest quality monochrome print. If you want to obtain fast speeds print a fast draft on low quality in black only. That will yield the speeds the manufacturer is promoting.
2007-01-18 02:33:46 · answer #4 · answered by smedrik 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The ppm rating defines how fast a printer, at a specified resolution, can print copies of a document after it is loaded in its memory. Consider it like this, if you need to take 22 prints of a one page document at the given resolution it will take 1 min. after the document is spooled completely.
2007-01-17 22:54:22 · answer #5 · answered by ampee 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
depends on the quality settings of the printer the better the print quality the slower it is
2007-01-17 22:32:21 · answer #6 · answered by Snot Me 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cos the printer will print at 22ppm if you have it on the lowest possible rubbish setting.
Which is no bloomin good is it.
2007-01-17 22:30:52 · answer #7 · answered by Homer Baby 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they use the fastest possible settings to produce their figures - like "draft" mode, for one instance - unlike the real world.
2007-01-17 22:34:29 · answer #8 · answered by champer 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
22ppm on draft on high quality its always slower
2007-01-17 22:32:33 · answer #9 · answered by Roxley x 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋