Comment on List of Printers Which Do or Do Not Display Tracking Dots
itsonlygeorge@reddthat.com 7 months ago
This is why they won’t let you print black and white without cyan or yellow!?
Comment on List of Printers Which Do or Do Not Display Tracking Dots
itsonlygeorge@reddthat.com 7 months ago
This is why they won’t let you print black and white without cyan or yellow!?
grue@lemmy.world 7 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.)
itsonlygeorge@reddthat.com 7 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.
grue@lemmy.world 7 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?