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Photoshop Tutorial 0010 - How to Speed up Printing to the Color Printers in Photoshop

1. Flatten your image. If your image has layers in, flatten them. This is particularly true of text layers in Photoshop for Windows (you can end up with no text in your printed image). This reduces the file size, and nearly eliminates the possibility of a postscript error.

2. In Photoshop, in the Print with Preview dialog, in the "Show More Options" area, set the pull down menu to "Output", and change the encoding to "JPEG".

This will drastically speed up your print, as it sends compressed data to the printer, without actually compressing the image, keeping the same level of quality.

Very cool...