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Why is my printer not using all it's ink?

How can I stop my printer from using colour ink on black and white print outs?

  • I never ever print out pages with colour, yet my printer manages to eat its way through my colour ink as quickly as it does the black ink. I've tried pressing the "mono colour" button on the printer but it doesn't work; as I have no colour ink left, it won't print anything, regardless of the fact that I just need to use the black ink. Is there a way to change the settings on my printer?

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    The "budget" printers use the color inks to make a pseudo black. That may be what is happening in your printer. If you have 4 or more ink cartridges, you should be able to print with just the black. The mono color button is not what you push, there is an option (black only) in your printer menu when you tell your printer to print.

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Whatever you do do not press grayscale. This will use colour ink to make different tones of gray. hit print on your computer. Go into finishing options. Select black and white. It should then only use black. If you print off a lot of black and white documents, you may want to consider getting a mono laser printer. These printers are fast but expensive. However, the cartridges last for so much longer than inkjet cartridges

tobz

Whenever you want print black / gray scaling follow this: 1.File> Print>Properties>Color<Choose print in gray scale<OK. It will print in black.This works 100%

jupiter

when you press print and the window comes up where you can choose what Printer and such you need to press properties for that printer and there should be a button for black and white only. unfortunately you will have to do this every time you don't want to use color.

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If it is Windows, start -> Printers and Faxes, or start -> settings -> printers. Find the printer of interest, right-click on it, select Properties. You'll have to hunt around, but the printer driver may have a box to check to force Grayscale or Monochrome printing. Our Canon printer works that way. If you want color printing for a particular piece, you can always select "printer setup" or something similar from the application you're printing from. You can get a one-time color printout that way, then the next time, it will revert back to the default of mono. If this is an HP printer, what you could do is open the lid while the printer is on, which should make the cartridges come out into view. Remove the color one, close the lid, and the printer will then fall back to the black cartridge, until you can get another color one.

roderick_young

If you go to printer properties and specify black & white only, it might cut back the color use. Some printers use color ink when printing black to enhance the contrast.You can check the vendor website, but I doubt you will get acceptable resolution to your problem.

pmc123

After pressing ctrl+p there's a properties there, click it and find black ink only or grayscale. then press ok :-)

Solex

buy a black OR colour printer

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