Comment 18 for bug 235399

Hi -
Thanks for your email..
I have no idea what HPLIP means, or how I even can find that out about my
printer. BUT, be that as it may, at least the final document(s) are not grayish.
My settings for the HP Photosmart 8050 are not quite the same as yours, so I
can't select the "300dpi, Color, Black + Color Cartr" that you can do, so I
have to assume that what I do my way (as per my letter to the launchpad site)
is as close as I can get...for now, anyhow.
Thanks again for your helpfulness,
        Mary

In a message dated 12/4/2008 11:27:26 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
<email address hidden> writes:

Hi Mary, here's the workaround that works for me, not sure if it will
work for everybody.

- When printing something access the Advanced tab under print dialog
- On General set Normal (Color)
- On Print out mode select 300dpi, Color, Black + Color Cartr.

This is the settings for me using HP Officejet 41xx and 42xx with hplip
drivers. Depending on your printer it may be a little different, but the
important part is to select a print out mode that explicitly uses the
black cartridge.

If I leave Print out in auto it will print using only the color cartr.
Now this seem like a stupid bug for me. If I'm right it looks like a
rather simple bug to solve.

You can usually recognize if you're printer is using the black cartr. or
not because the final document will appear grayish if it doesn't.

Can you guys confirm if the workaround works for you?

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"Print black" does not use black ink cartridge
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/235399
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Status in HP Linux Imaging and Printing: New
Status in “hplip” source package in Ubuntu: New

Bug description:
Binary package hint: openoffice.org

If I want to save money and print black text with black ink, I have to
select the "greyscale" printout mode. Of course, when I do that, my images also
come out black & white. There are evidently workarounds, or I can run the pages
through twice and hope the alignment is perfect, but I don't think that
should be necessary.

I'm running Kubuntu Hardy (8.04) with linux kernel 2.6.24-17-generic.

The version of OpenOffice.org is 1:2.4.0-3ubuntu6.

My printer is an HP Officejet 5610 All-in-One, which is a USB printer.

I thank you in advance for everything you do.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue May 27 22:04:32 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: ath_hal
Package: openoffice.org-core 1:2.4.0-3ubuntu6
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/usr/lib/openoffice/program:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr
/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: openoffice.org
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-17-generic i686

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