PressReady is faster than Birmy PowerRIP but it is slower than the standard driver. I have a Mac G3 processor upgrade and it runs pretty gfast, infinitely better than when installed on my old PowerBook so I suspect processor speed is a BIG issue. As for the 360 x 360 trick (I'm not sure if this is kosher) you might try setting the Adobe Print Color control panel to Unspecified for CMYK then select one or the other of the ICC profiles (that PressReady provides) in the Photoshop 5 CMYK setup under ICC. Then you can increase saturation (total ink in this case) to your hearts content by using an adjustment curve. The screen image will not look like the printed image if you select the wrong profile but I think it will defeat the ink limits (not sure what the names stand for other than they are related to the media selctions in PressReady). Might make an unholy mess -- try it on absorbent paper first, not glossy. Unspecified in Adobe PrintColor always makes a CMYK file print with unconstrained ink loads so you will have to constrain them manually with a profile. You can make a CMYK profile for the 360 printing choice then select that profile in Photoshop CMYK setup, convert to CMYK in PS5 Mode change and you will get a very accurate screen rendition PLUS the ability to occasionally dump in more ink. But you will need to be able to make CMYK profiles to do that. Dan Culbertson J. Lenz" <john@lenzdesign.org> wrote: >1) Printing @ 360 X 360 on ink-jet paper=not very saturated or washed out >colors, fairly fast print. >2) Printing @ 720 X 720 on ink jet paper=excellent color, very slow print > >Is this the norm for all users? > >Would a faster host machine _significantly_ speed up print times? > >Is there a way to get the saturated color of a 720 X 720 with the speed of a >360 X 360? Maybe through a "fake" ICC profile? > >Thanks to everyone in advance, > >John - Turn off HTML mail features. Keep quoted material short. Use accurate subject lines. http://www.leben.com/lists for list instructions.