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

DanG wrote:
"Michael Johnson" <cds@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:h5-dnVGXraLhiQPanZ2dnUVZ_jadnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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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.

I just did another print telling the printer it was printing on photo paper. It didn't do the same print pattern and looked like it was using the BCI-6 cartridges only. There was no lead-in of the black like the one on plain paper. It appears that the pigment does get printed along with the color cartridges on plain paper.
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