R U using a lot of coloured ink when......

[Clanger]

Just a tip for those NON experienced or maybe like us fairly experienced
users.

This came to light at work this week.

We primarily print CAD drawings so it's black ink onto either white paper or
film.

There are 5 people in the office and it was becoming clear the colour
cartridge(s) were being used up quicker than the black. We just assumed it
was due to head cleaning but NO.

Both printers were set to print "colour" so what we thought was black from
black cartridge was black made up from the colour cartridge.

If you primarily print Black then you should set or check that it is set to,
black as default in printer settings.


clanger

 

[SleeperMan]

Just a tip for those NON experienced or maybe like us fairly
experienced users.

This came to light at work this week.

We primarily print CAD drawings so it's black ink onto either white
paper or film.

There are 5 people in the office and it was becoming clear the colour
cartridge(s) were being used up quicker than the black. We just
assumed it was due to head cleaning but NO.

Both printers were set to print "colour" so what we thought was black
from black cartridge was black made up from the colour cartridge.

If you primarily print Black then you should set or check that it is
set to, black as default in printer settings.


clanger

Black ink is used only if output is truly black. If it has any grey shades,
then it's composed with colour inks. If your printer uses much of colour,
then your CAD output is not set to total black. Sure you can set it to
black, but then you won't be able to print any grey shades.
Also it can happen that black ink is used for text, while for graphics
colour is used, but i guess that this depends on printer. You can see this
if you open cover and see it printing - if it uses colour, you'll see that
each line is printer 3 times (you can see colour lines of the unfinished
lines). Also black printing should be much faster.