Colour cartridge depleting quickly

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Two of the colours in my printer's colour cartridge are depleting very
quickly. The store which sells me the cartridges have tested them, and finds
nothing wrong. They indicate that there are settings that may have gotten
changed in XP or my printer that cause some colour to be used when printing
black. (The colour that survives, every time, is red)
I know that occasionally there is a blue tinge to the letters on the screen,
but can't recall how that happened, or if it would affect the printer
operation.
Any thoughts as to a solution?
 
When you print, (don't know what printer you are using since you didn't say)
force black printing in the properties selection area of the printer driver
when you are printing only Black documents. You also may want to check for
any kind of shadow or character border on the font format you are using
(again you didn't say what programs you use to print most often.)
 
Printerwise, I am using an H/P Officejet t45xi. For printing, I am mainly
dealing with OE messages, Word 2003, and the occasional webpage, or
selection from same.
The options under the printer are to print automatic or manual. With the
automatic, there is a check box for greyscale. When I print 3 samples, one
with automatic only,one with automatic and grayscale, and one with manual,
and examine them closely, I can notice no difference.
 
Happy said:
Two of the colours in my printer's colour cartridge are depleting very
quickly. The store which sells me the cartridges have tested them, and
finds nothing wrong. They indicate that there are settings that may
have gotten changed in XP or my printer that cause some colour to be
used when printing black. (The colour that survives, every time, is
red)
I know that occasionally there is a blue tinge to the letters on the
screen, but can't recall how that happened, or if it would affect the
printer operation.
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Set the printer to print in grayscale and then select the option to
print black only (since color may get used even in grayscale shading
unless you specifically say to do black-only greyscaling).

Are you using new printer cartridges or refilled ones? I had mine
refilled at Office Depot but they screwed up on 2 of the colors. I'll
buy the recycled ones at Office Max now because they will guarantee them
(Office Depot would not).
 
Happy said:
Printerwise, I am using an H/P Officejet t45xi. For printing, I am mainly
dealing with OE messages, Word 2003, and the occasional webpage, or
selection from same.
The options under the printer are to print automatic or manual. With the
automatic, there is a check box for greyscale. When I print 3 samples,
one with automatic only,one with automatic and grayscale, and one with
manual, and examine them closely, I can notice no difference.
Click to expand...

Hello Happy
Another consideration might be the problems caused by one of the April MS
updates.
There were posts about the probs caused to HP printers/scanners etc. - I
have no HP stuff myself so didn't read about the probs. some posters had.
Rgds
Antioch
 
Thanks, I'll check prev. posts.
antioch said:
Hello Happy
Another consideration might be the problems caused by one of the April MS
updates.
There were posts about the probs caused to HP printers/scanners etc. - I
have no HP stuff myself so didn't read about the probs. some posters had.
Rgds
Antioch
Click to expand...
 
Set the printer to print in grayscale and then select the option to
print black only (since color may get used even in grayscale shading
unless you specifically say to do black-only greyscaling).
Click to expand...

I can't seem to find a setting that allows an option to print black only.
When I set to Manual, then select options, I only get the choice to print
lighter or darker, and the "help" screen with it says it applies mainly to
colour printing.
Are you using new printer cartridges or refilled ones? I had mine
refilled at Office Depot but they screwed up on 2 of the colors. I'll buy
the recycled ones at Office Max now because they will guarantee them
(Office Depot would not).
Click to expand...

I am using refilled cartridges, so guess I could try a new one, to see if
refilling is the problem.
 
Happy
The black or colour option is in preferences, then paper/quality.
From there you set your quality and black or colour.
Rgds Antioch
 
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