What do the Color Density and Drying Time driver settings do?
You probably won’t need to change these driver settings if you print with Epson papers. But they can come in handy with third-party papers. Note that the Color Density setting only affects printing in Color mode. It does not appear to have any effect when printing in ABW mode (i.e., the Color Density slider seems to be ignored by the ABW driver). Color Density lets you decrease or increase the ink load. Decreasing Color Density (i.e., setting the slider to a negative value) can be useful if you find that the driver is putting down too much ink on your paper. Common symptoms of too much ink include ink smearing, pooling of ink (or banding) in the black or dark regions of the image, and excessive paper warping. Increasing the Color Density can sometimes lead to increased saturation and deeper blacks, especially on some PK papers. Drying Time lets you specify additional time (in tenths of a second) between successive print head passes. This can be useful if you find that the ink is smeari
