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Printer using color ink despite selecting grayscale - ink running out TOO quickly!

beano378 — Mon, 20 Jul 2020 12:20:35 GMT

I have a TR8520 I purchased this spring and print only black and white by selecting "grayscale", but all of my color ink cartridges are almost empty. What am I missing??

Re: Printer using color ink despite selecting grayscale - ink running out TOO quickly!

jrhoffman75 — Mon, 20 Jul 2020 12:41:12 GMT

https://community.usa.canon.com/t5/Printer-Multifunction-Support/Printer-help-Canon-PIXMA-tr8520/td-p/259528

Re: Printer using color ink despite selecting grayscale - ink running out TOO quickly!

Hector — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 19:51:49 GMT

Hello beano378,

The setting fro grayscale converts color images to black and shades of gray to reduce color usage but, it still uses color ink. To use only the large black ink tank, the item would need to be a black and white document and you would be printing single sided pages on plain paper. Printing with the setting for duplex turned on, with the option for grayscale turned on or with the paper type set to something other than plain paper, will use color ink.

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