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by mfergo
Sat May 15, 2010 11:19 am
Forum: Printers & Applications
Topic: Canon Pixma IP1300: Can't print using black cartridge
Replies: 13
Views: 21002

I don't know what changed but it seems to print OK now. There is still no colour+black option on configure-main-color but it prints text black now. The log file extract is below - this was from printing an openoffice spreadsheet with some yellow background on some cells. Anyway, thank you for your h...
by mfergo
Thu May 13, 2010 2:41 pm
Forum: Printers & Applications
Topic: Canon Pixma IP1300: Can't print using black cartridge
Replies: 13
Views: 21002

Thank you for your quick reply.

I have plain paper/draft 300 dpi set on the 'configure-main' dialog but it still does not offer a colour+black option and still does not print black with a b&w text file - it is sort of dark grey.
by mfergo
Thu May 13, 2010 11:20 am
Forum: Printers & Applications
Topic: Canon Pixma IP1300: Can't print using black cartridge
Replies: 13
Views: 21002

ip4000 - can't use black cartridge

My problem is slightly different. The 'configure-main-mode' setting offers only a colour option (i.e. colour+black' is missing) although the printer has a working BCI-3 catridge. Thus it always prints text files using the BCI-6 black cartridge. On the ink control page, only the 4 BCI-3 cartridges ar...