Using up colour ink when printing black

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I am using an Epson R300 and have mainly been printing CDs/DVDs with black
text only, but.., i have noticed that the colour inks seem to be going down
too. I have been selecting the grayscale option too.

Surely it should not be doing this??, any ideas??

Many thanks,
 
I have been selecting the grayscale option too.

Surely it should not be doing this??, any ideas??
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Maybe it's mixing color into give you different shades of grey?
 
howie said:
I am using an Epson R300 and have mainly been printing CDs/DVDs with black
text only, but.., i have noticed that the colour inks seem to be going down
too. I have been selecting the grayscale option too.

Surely it should not be doing this??, any ideas??

Many thanks,
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In last months PC-Pro review of some 12 leading printers Epson and others
admitted to using underprinting - this is printing black over a base colour.
Canon declined to comment. So maybe everything is not quite Black and
hite - just like life.
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I have a Canon S600, and came across the same problem. I contacted Canon,
but they said to turn greyscale OFF (or something to that extent).

To make a long story short, I accidentally discovered that if you don't have
greyscale ON, the printer WILL use color to print lighter blacks.

In all, I gave up. I just ended up getting generic ink for the printer to
reduce costs. There was no way i'd waste $20Cdn per color when you can get
decent generic for $10. So far, no problems (knock on wood!)
 
Tony1that said:
In last months PC-Pro review of some 12 leading printers Epson and others
admitted to using underprinting - this is printing black over a base colour.
Canon declined to comment. So maybe everything is not quite Black and
hite - just like life.
Tony>
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So do they do this to get a particular effect, or to saturate the paper
and waste ink ?


Cheers, J/.
 
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