| Page per Minute Printer Speed | | | | Quality of the printed material. Printers are capable |
| One of the common features that you will always | | | | of printing out both low and high quality texts and |
| come across with whenever you are looking a | | | | images. The higher the setting used for the |
| computer printer is the page per minute speed. | | | | printed materials, the slower the printing speed of |
| There are two types of page per minute printer | | | | the printer. |
| speeds that are always provided. The first is the | | | | Paper Size. Another reason for the difference in |
| page per minute speed for black text and the | | | | the page per minute printing speed is the size of |
| other is the page per minute speed for color | | | | the printer paper where the text and the image |
| images. | | | | will be printed on. As such, printing text and |
| What is it? | | | | images on the materials on a legal size paper will |
| As the term implies, this is the number of pages | | | | have a slower printing speed as compared to |
| a particular printer can print in one minute, | | | | printing the same text and image materials on a |
| depending on whether the user will be printing | | | | letter size paper. |
| pure black text, color images or both. Many | | | | How is Page per Minute Speed Computed? |
| companies have used this as a tool for marketing | | | | When a printer manufacturer would computes the |
| because printing speed is one of the features that | | | | page per minute speed of a specific printer model, |
| a buyer looks into. | | | | this is done by printing basic text using the lowest |
| What Affects Page per Minute Speed? | | | | print quality the printer model would be able to do. |
| After a printer is purchased and is used, the first | | | | This is for both black text and colored images. As |
| thing that a user notices is that the printer would | | | | such, the advertised page per minute printing |
| often print relatively slower than the page per | | | | speed of a specific printer models could be almost |
| minute speed that is advertised by the company. | | | | twice as high as the actual page per minute |
| Here are a number of reasons why this happens: | | | | printing speed of the model. |