On Aug 8, 2005, at 16:23, Marta Edie wrote: > I have an all-in-one Epson stylus CX5200 connected to my Macs. My > magenta color cartridge was empty. The machine therefore would not > even copy a black and white sheet of paper until I had a new > magenta cartridge installed. My question : Why would it be > necessary to have all color cartridges at least with some ink in > them, if one would only want to use the copying part of the > printer? I thought just copying a black and white page would not > involve the color cartridges at all. I need a wise man's answer.
I'm guessing that the copier cannot tell the difference between something which is black and white and something which is, say, navy and beige, so it needs to have the color ink for any copy. Bill -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2373 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20050808/e30946f7/attachment.bin
