I have an HP printer that uses a "Black" cartridge and a "Tri-colour" cartridge. Does the Tri-colour cartridge contain black ink? If it does, will it make up for or produce the black ink once the Black cartridge runs out?
2007-01-08 22:36:18 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Printers
The tri-color does not have black ink inside. The 3 colors are cyan (blue), magenta (red) and yellow.
It will also not automatically make up for the black ink. Depending on which model of printer you have, some printers can work if you take out the empty black cartridge. In which case the printer goes into "reserve" mode and then it will compensate for the lack of black ink.
But for most cases, you'd have to replace the black ink cartridge.
2007-01-09 14:30:43 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-30 10:12:15 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
Its cyan/magenta/yellow.
It's able to print nearly-black. It's a very expensive way to print black if your pinter lets you. If your printer uses 2 carts at a time then it may not work to print black anyway... cos the printer will print black with the black one. If it uses 1 cart at a time and the other is held somewhere else then the colour one will print nearly-black. HP made both sorts of printers - the cheap ones mostly use 1 cartidge at a time in the carrier so can either print black or colour-and-pretendblack.
2007-01-08 22:46:12 · answer #3 · answered by bambamitsdead 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
based on my experince, the color ink seems not to produce the black ink (my black ink went out, and nothing was printed)...basically, colored ink can make the black color, not pure black, more or less of a gray color...
2007-01-08 22:44:51 · answer #4 · answered by Ken 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
actually no.. the cloloured one might have .. but it is not for using it as a defult black colour..
2007-01-08 22:47:05 · answer #5 · answered by EnD_LoVe 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋