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Pixma iP4300 As A Dedicated Black and White Printer
As one who primarily does printing in black and white, is it possible to
make the Canon Pixma iP 4300 a dedicated black and white printer by replacing the 3 color cartridges with black ones? The owners manual notes that if the wrong cartridges are installed the printer will not print. Is there a way to work around this? Thanks, Parker |
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Pixma iP4300 As A Dedicated Black and White Printer
"Parker G. Kramer" wrote in message
... As one who primarily does printing in black and white, is it possible to make the Canon Pixma iP 4300 a dedicated black and white printer by replacing the 3 color cartridges with black ones? The owners manual notes that if the wrong cartridges are installed the printer will not print. Is there a way to work around this? Thanks, Parker There are relatively inexpensive Epson printers that have just what you want. MIS inks, among others, are available to replace the Epson color carts with shades of gray so you can do good quality black and white prints. As I recall, there are inks that are warmer in tone and others colder in tone. There are HP printers that have gray scale carts in addition to the color carts. I don't know how many of the gray scale carts they have as I don't know much about the HP printers. I don't know of comparable products for the Canon printers. The inks available for the iP4300 may or may not give you neutral grays. Look up the Neil Slade information on inkjets. He has evaluated several ink sets for previous Canon printers that use the bci-6 carts. His conclusion was that the Canon OEM inks gave the most neutral gray scale of all he tested. He also felt that some of the others could be "tweaked" to minimize any color hue. I use MIS inks to refill my carts in an i960 and and ip5000. On the i960 the best black and white prints are produced by not using the gray scale setting. I have printed very neutral B&W prints on the iP5000. I don't recall if I set the printer to gray scale or not. I did them several months ago for a special occasion and was quite please with the results. If you already own the printer you should experiment with various settings. It will also depend on which software you are using from which to print. If you use the Canon easy print software, it takes over and precludes your making any adjustments. Go onto the Nifty-stuff forum, sign in, and ask the question there as well as someone may have the info you need. At the top of the forum page is the link for neil slade. Check out his "ink shootout." It has grayscale scans of the various inks for the bci-6 inks printed on an i960 printer. You may be able to apply some of this info in your search for a suitable ink for B&W prints on the iP4300. http://www.nifty-stuff.com/forum/ |
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Pixma iP4300 As A Dedicated Black and White Printer
"Parker G. Kramer" wrote in message
... As one who primarily does printing in black and white, is it possible to make the Canon Pixma iP 4300 a dedicated black and white printer by replacing the 3 color cartridges with black ones? The owners manual notes that if the wrong cartridges are installed the printer will not print. Is there a way to work around this? No practical way. If you only want to do B&WE (with a rare color page) you would probably be better off with a low cost laser printer. You might also look at the HP DeskJet's - most of the new versions allow printing with just a black cartridge installed, leaving the color cartridge slot empty. Regards, Bob Headrick, MS MVP Printing/Imaging |
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Pixma iP4300 As A Dedicated Black and White Printer
"Bob Headrick" wrote in message
... "Parker G. Kramer" wrote in message ... As one who primarily does printing in black and white, is it possible to make the Canon Pixma iP 4300 a dedicated black and white printer by replacing the 3 color cartridges with black ones? The owners manual notes that if the wrong cartridges are installed the printer will not print. Is there a way to work around this? No practical way. If you only want to do B&WE (with a rare color page) you would probably be better off with a low cost laser printer. You might also look at the HP DeskJet's - most of the new versions allow printing with just a black cartridge installed, leaving the color cartridge slot empty. Regards, Bob Headrick, MS MVP Printing/Imaging Bob - I don't know the HP models, but I do recall a model fairly recently that had a cart or carts specifically for black and white printing in addition to the color carts. If the OP is looking to do good quality, full gray scale B&W photo prints I haven't seen a laser printer that would do such a thing. On the other hand, the HP printer that was set up to do color and good quality B&W Photo prints might be a good solution. I haven't used the Epson printers for which the aftermarket black/gray scale ink sets are available, but that really sounds like the best approach if someone wants to do B&W photo prints on an inkjet. I know that MIS has these inks, and there is a manufacturer/vendor that specializes in inks for the art community that also has B&W inksets. |
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Pixma iP4300 As A Dedicated Black and White Printer
Why even ask that question. Just buy an inexpensive BX Laser printer.
Parker G. Kramer wrote: As one who primarily does printing in black and white, is it possible to make the Canon Pixma iP 4300 a dedicated black and white printer by replacing the 3 color cartridges with black ones? The owners manual notes that if the wrong cartridges are installed the printer will not print. Is there a way to work around this? Thanks, Parker |
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Pixma iP4300 As A Dedicated Black and White Printer
Hi IP4300 users,
I work on CD and DVD printing. I have been working sucessfully with Canon ip5000, but is not available anymore. Maybe I will change to the Canon IP4300, but this model works with the inks CLI, instead of the BCI, used before. The issue is that I bought some quarters of the ink BCI to work with CISS on my IP5000 printers, and I want to know if I can work with the ink BCI indistinctly on the printer IP4300 and on the printer IP5000, or if the new CLI ink is very different from the old BCI, and if I MUST buy the ink CLI in quarters to work with the IP4300. I hope somebody's help !! |
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