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| Thread ID: 79554 | 2007-05-23 23:04:00 | Printer to use only black | gum digger (6100) | Press F1 |
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| 552593 | 2007-05-23 23:04:00 | Hi I have epson cx5700f, i just want to make bw printouts. but it wont let me do it. its asking me to replace the colour ones first. has anyone got a way around this?. |
gum digger (6100) | ||
| 552594 | 2007-05-23 23:06:00 | Under the printer prefs change it to b&w only. | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 552595 | 2007-05-23 23:10:00 | Under the printer prefs change it to b&w only. I assume he means the colour cartridge is low and this prevents any printing at all, even just B&W Try removing the colour cartridge and giving it a shake. It may remove the low level warning and allow you to print B&W for a while. |
Safari (3993) | ||
| 552596 | 2007-05-23 23:22:00 | Essentially the above options are work-arounds. Because their is a heat issue in the print heads the machine will not allow you to not have color cartridges in there, as the flowing ink keeps the heads from burning out. Even when printing black only you will still use ink from the colour cartridges. |
DeSade (984) | ||
| 552597 | 2007-05-24 01:20:00 | Would filling them with water work??? He only wants B&W. PJ | Poppa John (284) | ||
| 552598 | 2007-05-24 01:23:00 | the colour black is made up of obviously the black cartridge but in colour printers it has a small amount of coloured ink in there too, Water will not work unless he wants his printing smeared and watch smoke rise from his machine. |
DeSade (984) | ||
| 552599 | 2007-05-24 01:32:00 | the colour black is made up of obviously the black cartridge but in colour printers it has a small amount of coloured ink in there too, 5% Yellow will give a rich black. Generally that is the only other colour that is added to Black, well in a 4 colour print process. In a 3 colour printer with an RGB catridge, there is no true Black present, only the Red Green and Blue which are mixed accordingly. |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 552600 | 2007-05-24 03:14:00 | Hi, May be of some help - mine is an Epson CX3500 and I had the same problem, using a lot of colour when only printing being done was b/w. If you open Printer/Properties/General/Printing Preferences/ Advanced/Continue/Tick Black Ink Only/OK and close. That, in my case, had my printer using less colour but still some. That is assuming your Printer menu is the same or similar. I had to have at least some colour ink in the colour cartridges for printer to work. rny. |
rny (6943) | ||
| 552601 | 2007-05-24 03:59:00 | the colour black is made up of obviously the black cartridge but in colour printers it has a small amount of coloured ink in there too, Water will not work unless he wants his printing smeared and watch smoke rise from his machine. Thanks for that Info. I always wondered. PJ |
Poppa John (284) | ||
| 552602 | 2007-05-24 04:22:00 | Check if your printer, if there are 3rd party ink available. If you have 4 ink cartridge in total you can get 4 diff tone of black ink. It gives you much better b/w prints that way. |
Nomad (952) | ||
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