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'Print black' does not use black ink cartridge Not because the final document will appear grayish if it doesn't.Ĭan you guys confirm if the workaround works for you? You can usually recognize if you're printer is using the black cartr. If I leave Print out in auto it will print using only the color cartr. Important part is to select a print out mode that explicitly uses the

Depending on your printer it may be a little different, but the This is the settings for me using HP Officejet 41xx and 42xx with hplipĭrivers. On Print out mode select 300dpi, Color, Black + Color Cartr. When printing something access the Advanced tab under print dialog Hi Mary, here's the workaround that works for me, not sure if it will Is as close as I can get.for now, anyhow. Have to assume that what I do my way (as per my letter to the launchpad site) My settings for the HP Photosmart 8050 are not quite the same as yours, so IĬan't select the '300dpi, Color, Black + Color Cartr' that you can do, so I BUT, be that as it may, at least the final document(s) are not grayish. I have no idea what HPLIP means, or how I even can find that out about my PATH=/ usr/lib/ openoffice/ program: /usr/local/ sbin:/usr/ local/bin: /usr/sbin: /usr/bin: /sbin:/ bin:/usr/ games I thank you in advance for everything you do. My printer is an HP Officejet 5610 All-in-One, which is a USB printer.

I'm running Kubuntu Hardy (8.04) with linux kernel 2.6.24-17-generic. There are evidently workarounds, or I can run the pages through twice and hope the alignment is perfect, but I don't think that should be necessary. Of course, when I do that, my images also come out black & white. If I want to save money and print black text with black ink, I have to select the 'greyscale' printout mode.

Black ink test print