HP Deskjet 695/697 (English) Windows Users Guide - C4562-60287 - Page 37
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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.)