The stupid HURTS!

[mouser.livejournal.com]

(About a color printer with FAX capability)

"I thought that when it ran out of BLACK it would just use BLUE!"

No, dear - it uses white....

Comments

[taleya.livejournal.com]

To be fair, some older HP printers will use all the other colours if they just run out of black.

Looks like a funky mishmash, but it does print...

[taleya.livejournal.com]

very fuckin' wasteful though. Like running a four colour printer on true four colour every time you print plain black text.

Again, I'm boggled why they didn't keep it...

[silveryrose.livejournal.com]

It's not just older printers. Most of the cheap Lexmark ones do the same thing. I've seen several recently that only come with the color cartridge.

[vxo.livejournal.com]

Yep... NEC was the same way. I had a SuperScript 150 which cost $20, shipped with a color cartridge, and replacement cartridges were $30 color, $45 black.

I wound up stealing its power supply board when it ran out of ink.

[geekgrrl-ca.livejournal.com]

alot of the current hp aio still do it, much to some peoples annoyance that it wastes their colour ink

[delta_mike]

Modulo the different costs of black / blue ink, that wouldn't be such a bad idea..