Re: How does the printer choose which black ink to use when it has pigment and dye based black ??


"Michael Johnson" <cds@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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it.

I just printed a partial color page and the black was laid down before any
color which leads me to believe it is the pigment nozzles. The funny
thing is it wasn't the full width of the pigment nozzles, just a portion.
Roughly 2X the width of the color nozzles. If it does use the pigment
then not all of the nozzles appear to fire on a given pass of the head.



Sounds right. If you print plain black text, it'll use all the nozzles. My
assumption is that it's configured this way to allow the pigment black a bit
of time to dry before the color is laid down.


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