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18 About color Believe it or not, your color printer prints with only four colors-cyan, magenta, yellow, and black. By printing overlapping dots of different intensity and color, it creates practically any color you can imagine. What If Cyan Magenta Yellow Black Your printer is especially smart about printing color. (That's why HP called the technology ColorSmart™!) When you print a document in color, the printer marks each element in your document-text, full-color photographs, and graphics (such as pie charts with solid blocks of color)-and renders each at its vivid best. (If you use the photo cartridge when you print color photographs, you'll get photo-quality images!) Not only is the color quality high, for whatever you're printing, but it's also less expensive than making color copies at a copy shop. How to turn off color The color text and pictures that you create in your documents automatically print in color. You can print drafts of your color documents in grayscale if you're going to photocopy them or if you want to save time and ink. q In the HP print settings dialog box, click the Color tab, and then click Print in Grayscale. A "" means that color is turned off. Now your color documents print in shades of gray until you change the setting. For faster draft printing in grayscale, use the black print cartridge, not the photo cartridge. The printed colors don't match the screen colors Because of the physics of how color is made on screen (with light) and at the printer (with dyes and pigments), there might always be a slight mismatch. However, if the differences are dramatic the wrong cartridge might be in the printer-insert the photo cartridge for printing photographs; insert the black print cartridge for printing other pictures and text. The colors aren't as vivid as they should be The printer might be low on ink. Or you might be printing on the wrong side of the paper. If turning the paper over makes no difference, change the quality of printing to Best. If you're using a special paper, change the Paper Type setting to match the paper. (Step 1 in How to print on standard paper sizes on page 8 tells how.)

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18
About color
Believe it or not, your color printer prints with only four colors—cyan, magenta,
yellow, and black. By printing overlapping dots of different intensity and color, it
creates practically any color you can imagine.
Your printer is especially smart about printing color. (That’s why HP called the
technology ColorSmart™!) When you print a document in color, the printer marks
each element in your document—text, full-color photographs, and graphics (such
as pie charts with solid blocks of color)—and renders each at its vivid best. (If you
use the photo cartridge when you print color photographs, you’ll get photo-quality
images!) Not only is the color quality high, for whatever you’re printing, but it’s also
less expensive than making color copies at a copy shop.
How to turn off color
The color text and pictures that you create in your documents automatically print
in color. You can print drafts of your color documents in grayscale if you’re going
to photocopy them or if you want to save time and ink.
●
In the HP print settings dialog box, click the
Color
tab, and then click
Print in
Grayscale
.
Now your color documents print in shades of gray until you change the setting.
For faster draft printing in grayscale, use the black print cartridge, not the photo
cartridge.
Black
Cyan
Yellow
Magenta
A “
” means that color is turned off.
What If
The printed colors
don’t match the screen
colors
Because of the physics of
how color is made on
screen (with light) and at
the printer (with dyes and
pigments), there might
always be a slight
mismatch.
However, if the differences
are dramatic the wrong
cartridge might be in the
printer—insert the photo
cartridge for printing
photographs; insert the
black print cartridge for
printing other pictures
and text.
The colors aren’t
as vivid as they
should be
The printer might be low
on ink. Or you might be
printing on the wrong side
of the paper. If turning the
paper over makes no
difference, change the
quality of printing to
Best
.
If you’re using a special
paper, change the
Paper
Type
setting to match the
paper. (Step 1 in
How to
print
on standard paper
sizes
on page 8 tells how.)