Hi -
Thanks for your email..
I have no idea what HPLIP means, or how I even can find that out about my  
printer. BUT, be that as it may, at least the final document(s) are not  
grayish.
My settings for the HP Photosmart 8050 are not quite the same as yours, so  I 
can't select the "300dpi, Color, Black + Color Cartr" that you can do, so I  
have to assume that what I do my way (as per my letter to the launchpad site) 
is  as close as I can get...for now, anyhow.
Thanks again for your helpfulness,
        Mary
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 12/4/2008 11:27:26 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Hi Mary,  here's the workaround that works for me, not sure if it will
work for  everybody.

- When printing something access the Advanced tab under  print dialog
- On General set Normal (Color)
- On Print out mode select  300dpi, Color, Black + Color Cartr.

This is the settings for me using  HP Officejet 41xx and 42xx with hplip
drivers. Depending on your printer it  may be a little different, but the
important part is to select a print out  mode that explicitly uses the
black cartridge.

If I leave Print out  in auto it will print using only the color cartr.
Now this seem like a  stupid bug for me. If I'm right it looks like a
rather simple bug to  solve.

You can usually recognize if you're printer is using the black  cartr. or
not because the final document will appear grayish if it  doesn't.

Can you guys confirm if the workaround works for  you?

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"Print black" does not use black ink  cartridge
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/235399
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Status  in HP Linux Imaging and Printing: New
Status in “hplip” source package in  Ubuntu: New

Bug description:
Binary package hint:  openoffice.org

If I want to save money and print black text with black  ink, I have to 
select the "greyscale" printout mode. Of course, when I do  that, my images 
also 
come out black & white. There are evidently  workarounds, or I can run the 
pages 
through twice and hope the alignment is  perfect, but I don't think that 
should be necessary.

I'm running  Kubuntu Hardy (8.04) with linux kernel 2.6.24-17-generic.

The version  of OpenOffice.org is 1:2.4.0-3ubuntu6.

My printer is an HP Officejet  5610 All-in-One, which is a USB printer.

I thank you in advance for  everything you do.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue  May 27 22:04:32 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules:  ath_hal
Package: openoffice.org-core  1:2.4.0-3ubuntu6
PackageArchitecture:  i386
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/usr/lib/openoffice/program:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr
/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage:  openoffice.org
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-17-generic  i686

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