Printer cartridge question.

[Flowergirl]

If you only print in black - does the printer use any of the colour cartridge ink to make black? Sounds stupid ( Alo type question) but that is what I have been told.
I have a Canon.

[sms316]

Take the colour cartridge out, print something in b&w and see.

[kev]

Don't forget that the printer goes through a headclean cycle at start up, sometimes when powering off the printer and at set times during printing. You cannot alter that procedure. This will cause your ink cartridge to empty even with no colour printing.

However, as each cartridge has the printhead on it, you can leave an empty one in the machine. The printer should continue to work normally, setting it to grey scale is useful as many printers use blue ink with the black to produce a true deep black.

[oobsadd2]

Yes FG, unless the printer has a black ink cartridge it mixes the colours to print a kind of black.