Is it more cost-effective to print gray or black lettering on an inkjet printer?
Question by darshakay: Is it more cost-effective to print gray or black lettering on an inkjet printer?
My first instinct is that gray would be cheaper, because it would be less ink used than full black. However, I know that some copy machines use COLORED ink to print gray tones (which obviously costs more than black ink)…….
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Answer by Nebojsa D
I am not 100% sure, but think that your second guess is the right one. Because when I was out of colour ink, and had filled only the black, my HP inkjet wasn`t printing the gray properly… The letters were ok, but the rest, some tabels etc were not. And when I had the colour one filled, than it started to prind properly.
I think that you should try to print a page of text in gray, but take out the colour cartridge, and see how the gray tone comes out. If it is fine, than I think that you can save some ink. But I think that it won`t save much.
Hope I helped a little.
What do you think? Answer below!
Both cartridges must have ink in them to get any color to print properly.
U could go to your printer properties and select “Draft” for printing. The print will be faster too.
There will be other settings too, so just try them out. Mine has a grayscale setting too. I am not sure if yours does or not.
Yes, gray will be cheaper. The error in your logic is that even full black requires some color ink.
You can also save some money by turning the printer to “fast draft” and switching it to black and white/grayscale only.
Anything we can do to save a buck nowadays, right?