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More info?)
I should add that printers with cyan, magenta, and yellow carts but no black
cart create black with a mixture of the three colored inks when printing
colored images that include black areas. I haven't used the Epson stylus
photo 830 printer, but I read that it is a six color printer and would
therefore use primarily black ink when printing in "black ink only" mode.
Still uses all colors in the cleaning cycle as noted by Bob Headrick also.
"Burt" <sfbjgNOSPAM@pacbell.net> wrote in message
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>> The Epson 830 uses both black and colored ink to print make black
>> printouts even if I click on the "black ink only" option. Are all
>> color printers nowadays do this or is it just this one?
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> Although I am not certain that printing in black uses absolutely no color
> inks, I believe that all of the inkjet printers do cleaning routines that
> draw ink from all the cartridges (and all compartments of multicolored
> cartridges). Thus, it appears that printing routinely with black only
> selected uses considerable amounts of colored ink as well.
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