Re: printing black & white on a colour printer
On October 24, 2004 15:26, Levi Waldron wrote:
> I am using CUPS with the hpijs driver to print on an HP Deskjet 710C,
> on a Sarge/KDE workstation. I am out of colour ink and don't intend
> to replace it, as I only want to print in black & white.
> Unfortunately,
> whenever I print something with colour, the colour portions come out
> blank as it tries to use the non-existent ink.
>
> I have tried:
>
> - Choosing "grayscale" from the options I get when sending a print
> job from KDE apps. This has no apparent effect.
> - Defining a Deskjet 600 non-colour printer to send print jobs to.
> There is no output when sending a job to this printer.
>
> Thanks for any ideas.
I also have a Deskjet, different model though. Even when I pick Greyscale in
the Printout Mode under Resolution it still says something like:
300 dpi, greyscale, Black and Color Cart.
This leads me to believe that the color catridge is used for greyscale
printing or it is just a ripoff by HP to get us to by more ink.
RJP
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