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Printing documents using photographic cartridge

penguine
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My OH bought a lot of black cartridges for his canon printer -- but bought the black photographic ones instead of the text ones. Can we change the settings so that documents will print using the photo black cartridge?

(We've tried switching to grayscale but that doesn't work.)

It's a Canon Pixma iP4600.

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  • totalsolutions
    totalsolutions Posts: 3,110 Forumite
    I would not have thought so. Printing text on a photo printer is not cheap. The best option would be for a B & W laser printer.

    Photo black is for enhanced printing of colour photos, so not ideal for text. At ~£2500 / litre I hope someone is treating you too !
  • penguine
    penguine Posts: 1,101
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    Well, we've already bought the cartridges and the printer so the cost is irrelevant now, it's either use them up or give them away. We don't print photos on the printer so we're not going to use them otherwise.

    Anyone else have an idea about whether this can be done?
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