Epson DX 3850 - Colour Ink Used to FAST

JediMaster · 27-02-2007, 12:16

I have a 3 in 1 Epson DV 3850... I had it as a gift last year & its a great item. But I mostly only print Black Text... I got 3x Vlack for ÃƒÆ’Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â£18 (Originals) & its GREAT...

I have been printing a LOAD of Leaflets this week, only A5 size & hardly any Text (4-6 lines)... Its all 80% Black (so less ink used) & I've printed 1,000+ in a day. Saturday I got 3x New Ink's (Colour) & today I go to print & some of them are 25% used.....

How come in 2 days I've used 25% ink (it was FULL) only printing Black Text (no Colours)

Any ideas??

27-02-2007, 12:21

this has to be an ermmmmm

moment.Are you sur eno one else have used it? Ive just bought a continual ink supply system for my R300 cheap as chips if it works but ive not installed it yet maybe one for yours would be an option? If you just mainly printing text why are you still using originals?

JediMaster · 27-02-2007, 13:55

Quote:

Originally Posted by zinglebarb

this has to be an ermmmmm

moment.Are you sur eno one else have used it? Ive just bought a continual ink supply system for my R300 cheap as chips if it works but ive not installed it yet maybe one for yours would be an option? If you just mainly printing text why are you still using originals?

Only me uses the PC in house

I must admin the Colour Ink was infact "Copy" 4x for ÃƒÆ’Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â£12 job. But I only had them as the Originals were uses too fast to pay ÃƒÆ’Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â£8 a pop (x3 Colours) just to print Text. The Black is "Original's" as I have 3x New ones...

I will get a Lazer Printer in near future, but how is Colour (Real & now Copies) being used so fast lol

r1ch · 27-02-2007, 15:01

It's might actually be because you used 80% black - many inkjet printers combine small amounts of color inks to produce a better (more solid) grey.

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I should also have mentioned that you can often bypass this by explicitly choosing to print as greyscale in the printer options dialog.

JediMaster · 27-02-2007, 16:27

i thought light grey = less black lol....will try that next time... cheers

keithwalton · 27-02-2007, 16:27

How accurate is the read out ? as in does it show 4 levels of ink or more ? could just be that its registering as the inks are not quite full anymore.
Also could be as said to speed up printing and give greater detail colours are used to make up black sections