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Re: Picture is colour but I want to print it black and...
Download the _free_ "Graphic Image Manipulation Program" from http://www.GIMP.org
and use it, as if it were the very-expensive Adobe Photoshop, to convert colour to grey-scale.
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Canon Printer is among the popular printer brand name. You can print documents and pictures easily and not just black and white texts but coloured material too. Sometimes due to some issue you might encounter canon print not printing properly. Here's how to fix Canon Printer not printing colours correctly. Check that the ink cartridges are placed properly and there's no missing colours. Clean the print head once and then check the nozzle colour pattern.
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If your printer can print in color and your printer is set to print in color, then you need to do nothing else, it should print in color. There are only 4 things that could prevent you from printing in color. 1. The printer settings is set to print in shades of grey. 2. The printer itself is set to print in black and white only. 3. There is no more ik in your color cartridges. 4. You don't own a color printer.
Inkjet printer inks are dye-based, and that's the reason.
Perhaps this will help explain things. You know those little boxes of food colouring you can buy in the supermarket - the ones that have four little bottles of colour - red, blue, yellow and green. Within reason you can combine these to turn white icing into most colours. Use nothing and the icing is still white or use everything and the icing will go a black-brown colour. Use a couple of drops of red and blue and you'll get purple.
But if you start with black icing, there's nothing you can add that will make it anything but black.
It's the same with your inkjet printer - because white is obtained by not having any ink print on the white paper. But of course that only works when the paper is white. Naturally you'll get different results on all colours of paper, decreasing as the paper gets darker in colour. Print blue on yellow paper and you should get green printing.
The only way to print in white is to do what commercial printers do - use opaque inks and include a white ink in the process. And as far as I know there's no commercial ink that will do that with an inkjet printer.
I can hear lots of you muttering "Rubbish. Of course you can print light colours on dark paper." Well all I can say is, have fun experimenting, but you won't be able to do it.
About the only way to achieve the sort of result you may be after is to print the job then trim it and paste it in place. For instance, if you want to print onto a black or dark-coloured T-shirt then print onto white transfer material, trim the print to size and iron it in place.
I have the R2400 and the photo prints look muddy. I have tried the same picture on another printer and the colors are vibrant. Why the muddy pictures on such a nice printer?
It is possible that when the printer senses not enough black ink it will swap to using the colour tanks to try and make a BLACK.
It is also possible that you have mistakenly adjusted a setting in the epson printer program to use the colour tanks to print black and white photographs.
Either of those would certainly cause the problem you describe
Check ALL your printer settings both the windows ones AND your epson ones
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just chk the properties or the colour cobinations if you choose text for printing out than it will only print text and if it is too dark red that means it is connected with some wrong colour wire
I had the same problem but, with the black not printing at first.
It may be the printhead needs replacing. This seems to be a common problem with this series (confirmed by tech)
You can call Kodak at 1-800-235-6325.
They'll send one out for free.
Hope this helps.
On some printers, probably including yours, the black ink will be taken from the reserves in your colour cartridge unless you specifically tell it to do a black and white print on each document, regardless of whether it's printing black exclusively. I wouldn't worry, the black ink in it's own cartridge can also be used for colour photos etc with no detrimental effects.
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