Marta, Jerry Yeager told me once that our printers mix several colors with the black ink to print black. I forgot why he said it works that way. Mine does the same thing. Jerry's a wise man... I have a poor memory for details.
Mike On Aug 8, 2005, at 4:23 PM, Marta Edie wrote: > I have an all-in-one Epson stylus CX5200 connected to my Macs. My > magenta color cartridge was empty. The machine therefore would not > even copy a black and white sheet of paper until I had a new magenta > cartridge installed. My question : Why would it be necessary to have > all color cartridges at least with some ink in them, if one would only > want to use the copying part of the printer? I thought just copying > a black and white page would not involve the color cartridges at all. > I need a wise man's answer. > Marta -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 867 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20050808/4b960fe6/attachment.bin
