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Does a laser printer use less toner if DPI is reduced?

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Just wondering if I reduce my laser printer from 1200dpi to 300dpi, will it only use a quarter or the toner?

Already have economode on.

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07-11-2009, 08:33
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it will use less but proberly not 1/4
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No difference. Fewer bigger dots.
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No difference. Fewer bigger dots.
really? So I should always use the highest setting to get better quality?
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it makes a nominal difference the amount of ink saved would equal about 30 extra pages per toner as extra is 'burnt' during the laying of small dots compred to bigger - but every little helps lol
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it makes a nominal difference the amount of ink saved would equal about 30 extra pages per toner as extra is 'burnt' during the laying of small dots compred to bigger - but every little helps lol
mine prints about 2000 pages per £30 cartridge so can live with the 30 lost pages but thanks for the info

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Put it into draft mode for less important documents
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Put it into draft mode for less important documents
always keep it in econo mode as nothing important to ever print. Always seems great quality on that setting anyway.
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csiman:
really? So I should always use the highest setting to get better quality?
Yes. Think of a digital camera. Would you use it in 3 megapixel or 12 megapixel mode for the best image quality?
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csiman:
always keep it in econo mode as nothing important to ever print. Always seems great quality on that setting anyway.
2000 pages per £30 cartridge
great quality on eco mode
wow - sounds like a great printer you have mate, mind if I ask which on it is?
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Yes. Think of a digital camera. Would you use it in 3 megapixel or 12 megapixel mode for the best image quality?
yeah, I realise that. My concern was the amount of ink used per dpi setting.
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2000 pages per £30 cartridge
great quality on eco mode
wow - sounds like a great printer you have mate, mind if I ask which on it is?
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The DPI setting is more a way of changing the print speed when printing complex images. For very complicated work, you may need to turn the DPI down to allow a document to print at all.

high DPI gives you more smaller dots, lower DPI gives you fewer larger dots. If low DPI used the same size dots as high DPI, lines in your printers output would look thinner for example.
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Yes. Think of a digital camera. Would you use it in 3 megapixel or 12 megapixel mode for the best image quality?
Ohhh bad form, that's a poor example. Not to those extremes but often a 7mp camera will take better photos than a 12mp because they cram too much in a small space and it has a negative effect.
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Ohhh bad form, that's a poor example. Not to those extremes but often a 7mp camera will take better photos than a 12mp because they cram too much in a small space and it has a negative effect.

Somehow I don't think that laser printers suffer from the CCD noise problems that small sensor high pixel count digital cameras do at high ISOs. :-P
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Somehow I don't think that laser printers suffer from the CCD noise problems that small sensor high pixel count digital cameras do at high ISOs. :-P
Yeah I know they don't that's why I said poor example not you were wrong. But yeah I know what you meant.
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