Lexmark 1200 - Manual (Page 111)

97 Conserving supplies
Black & White
printing
If you’re printing drafts of a color document, or you’re
printing a color document that you want to photocopy, set
Color Correction to Black & White in the Color Menu.
Your document prints in shades of gray suitable for
reviewing or photocopying on a monochrome copier. This
preserves the toner in the magenta, cyan, and yellow toner
cartridges.
Printer Usage setting If print speed is not critical to you, you can set Printer
Usage to Maximum Yield in the Setup Menu to extend the
life of the color photoconductors and toner cartridges.
If Maximum Yield is selected, the printer lowers the trans-
port belt each time it detects a mono page (a page that
requires only black toner). This allows the media to bypass
the color print units as it travels through the paper path,
thereby reducing wear. When the printer detects a page
with color, it then elevates the transport belt and synchro-
nizes all four print units. This adjustment may take up to
90 seconds, and thereby slows overall printing. The total
effect this adjustment has on print speed depends on the
mix of mono and color pages in the job, as well as the Tim-
ing Adjustment setting in the Setup Menu.
See “Printing color and mono jobs” on page 63 for more
information about the Printer Usage and Timing Adjust-
ment settings.