Increasing black level on IP5000 and other pixmas?

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"Hg" <hg@gh.hg> wrote in message news:J66dnf2_lLnhKDPfRVnyuA@pipex.net...
> What would be the best way to increase the amount of black ink used from
> the
> black cartridge of an IP5000 to increase the overall contrast of a print?
> The 100g/m paper I'm using has trouble reproducing deep enough blacks, so
> I
> would like to increase the amount of black ink used. Yeah, I know someone
> is
> going to reply with 'buy better paper' to this question, but to be honest
> I'm not looking for a huge black increase and I'd rather not buy much more
> expensive paper because I have quite a few pictures to print out.
>
> TIA
>
Are you talking about printing colour images? If you are, increasing black
may not be the solution - black or dark colours are frequently made up of
colour ink - not just black. Why not go into the printing preferences and
increase the intensity setting? (Actually you can increase black there
too...) Click on Colour Settings - Manual.