Comment on List of Printers Which Do or Do Not Display Tracking Dots

itsonlygeorge@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• grue@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yes, assuming your printer has a black cartridge. (Otherwise, it’s because it legitimately needs all the colors to reconstruct a shitty black – I don’t know if they still make printers like that, though.)

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  • itsonlygeorge@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Using C,M,Y in addition to black makes “rich black” in printing applications. Without the K or black component the best you can do is a dark brown.

    You don’t need to use additional colors other than K for black, but they do make it a deeper more rick black.

    Really only applies when you are printing photographs or high quality images. For text, its a rip off the uses more ink.

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    • grue@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      “Rich black” in CMYK is one thing, but not what I was talking about. Am I misremembering that some really old inkjets used to be just “CMY” (no K), and do any like that still get made?

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