blueman541
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I have a Canon Pixma MP780 printer and it has 5 cartridge, 3 color, 1 black dye, and 1 black pigment. The black pigment is used for text, while the dye is used for photos.
How can i force the printer to use the Pigment black only for b/w prints?
Like printing webpages online? Or b/w photoshop/illustrator artwork?
I called canon support twice, and both reps said that this can't be done. Even with the grayscale option enable in the printing preference. The printer will still use a composite of the color cartridge to simulate grayscale tones, mostly the blue ink will be used in neutral gray. The pigment base ink will only be used on ASCII text they said, anything else would be a composite gray if grayscale is enabled or just color.
So the Rep said i am better off just printing in color and setting it as draft mode. Since printing in grayscale would use more colored ink to simulate the dark graytones than just using color from the start. Hmm....
There has to be a way right? like forcing it to halftone and dither? Im not sure. Anyone with any ideas on this or thoughts?
How can i force the printer to use the Pigment black only for b/w prints?
Like printing webpages online? Or b/w photoshop/illustrator artwork?
I called canon support twice, and both reps said that this can't be done. Even with the grayscale option enable in the printing preference. The printer will still use a composite of the color cartridge to simulate grayscale tones, mostly the blue ink will be used in neutral gray. The pigment base ink will only be used on ASCII text they said, anything else would be a composite gray if grayscale is enabled or just color.
So the Rep said i am better off just printing in color and setting it as draft mode. Since printing in grayscale would use more colored ink to simulate the dark graytones than just using color from the start. Hmm....
There has to be a way right? like forcing it to halftone and dither? Im not sure. Anyone with any ideas on this or thoughts?