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Vanishing colors in inkjet printers?
Paul added these comments in the current discussion du jour ...
Hi, I used mainly black laserjet. Yesterday I tried a new inkjet printer and I noticed something strange. I printed mostly black and white yet the the ink levels of the colors are decreasing too. Is this a normal in inkjet (HP) where you have to use both of them together or waste losing the colors when only mainly black is used? Where does the color ink go? Some kind of drain below?? Why can't they design inkjets such that only the black ink would get lessen if the colors is rarely used? How many ink colors does your particular HP have, Paul? Are you speaking of those combo cartridges that have the 3 CMY colors and mix them to achieve a sort of "black" or maybe do you mean the more typical example of one large cartridge that contains the CMY colors and a smaller one for K? In the former, yes, you'll quickly use up your ink and like you say, it is use it or lose it. But, with the latter, your color cartridge should last for a long, long time IF you mainly print in color. I would hasten to add, however, that depending on the source of the "image" you want to print, including a word processor document, an E-mail, a web page or many others, there MAY be colors in the image anyway OR the printer driver may THINK there is some sort of overall tint to the black. Sometimes, fairly often I think, the printer driver software will allow you to vary this stuff according to whether you tell it that the "image" is text-only, text and graphics, all graphics, and so forth. And, telling the printing you are using plain paper will provide much different results than in using the various professional papers the printer supports such as photo matte, semi- gloss, and glossy. For example, my Canon Pixma 6600 supports 4 or 5 glossy paper types of it's own manufacture, with the differences being assumptions based on the absorbsion of ink by the paper and the designed characteristics the prints expects the paper to provide. Incidently, as you may or may not know, changing the driver from fast print quality to normal to high quality not only has a GREAT impact on print speed, but almost always a HUGE difference in ink usage. Again, using my Canon as an example, draft is generally crap and "quality" is a major ink eater yet it is only minorly better - to my eyes - than "normal" for graphics printing. -- HP, aka Jerry "Laid off yet? Keep buying foreign and you soon will be!" - popular bumper sticker |
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