Does my printer use MORE colored ink in GREYSCALE mode?

Question

currently i have a new HP deskjet model. over the last five years ive had hp epson and canon printers and all seems to be the same dilemna. if you choose greyscale mode, your page prints grey alright... by mixing all the colors! after a while, greyscale prints turn to red (or blue, or yellow) as the other colors run out! is there a cheap home printer that does not do this? one that actually just uses the black cartridge when you choose no color? i'm getting sick of buying color cartridges for printing in greyscale.

what i mean when i say "printing in greyscale" and "greyscale mode" is that im using the printer preferences to turn color printing off! so anything color is printed black or grey. i work with a press and high volume printers at work. i know what i'm doing. and i know what the printer itself is doing wrong; i thought i explained it above.

Answer 1

All printers do!

There is absolutely no way around this other than to pick up a printer like a canon pix ma ip1300 that only takes one cartridge.

Or pick up a printer that has a greyscale photo cartridge (some Hp's do) however even then you are still going to be flying through ink.

Answer 2

A computer only uses Black ink in GREYSCALE mode which is why it is called GREY scale. - Grey is just a lighter shade of Black.

Unless you only have an RGB cartridge.

The other alternative is to get a four colour printer that has C, M, Y and K cartridges.
K= Black

Answer 3

Use printer preferences to choose "print in black & white" when you are not needing colour. Go to printers, rt click on your printer, left click properties, then search for option, different printers have different options and ways to get to them, so I cannot be more specific. You can also do this when printing a document. Use file tab (top left), choose print the printer setup where the same options are available.

If you print a lot in black only, eg letters, reports etc, you can get low cost laser printers which will give excellent quality at a much lower cost per page than any inkjet.