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How to use a photo colour cartridge |
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Most modern inkjet printers take black and either one multi-colour or several single-colour ink cartridges. Some however (many HP and Lexmark printers) can also operate with a “photo” cartridge. The most popular models are the HP58, HP348, Lexmark 31 and Lexmark 90.
The use of photo cartridges is very widely misunderstood, so at Aline ink we thought you’d like some information on the most cost-efficient way to get the best from your printer.
If your printer takes one of the above cartridges it will fit into the BLACK port, and work alongside the usual colour cartridge. Photo cartridges contain three colours: black, light cyan and light magenta. They are designed to offer the very best colour definition possible when you are printing photographs – hence the name of course.
When you buy a photo cartridge it comes with a cradle or clip for safekeeping whilst it is outside the printer. This is because it is best to install the photo cartridge for printing photo’s, and then remove it for printing anything else – installing a black cartridge instead.
For every day black & colour printing when colour perfection is less than critical (printing emails, letters, school homework etc) it makes no sense at all to use a photo cartridge in the black port – use a black only cartridge. Photo cartridges contain only a very small amount of black ink (about one third of the black only cartridge) and if you use it printing all manner of stuff, you’ll end up throwing away the light cyan and light magenta remaining inside when the black is spent. You’ll effectively be tripling your black ink costs.
When using the photo cartridge, any part-used black cartridge can be safely stored in the cradle/clip supplied with the photo cartridge - always making sure it is the right way up (print-head downwards). |
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