I could understand this if I were printing. But just to put the paper on the tray for copying, not printing from the computer, that I cannot understand, and BTW. it does have a button for color and one for black and white only. Are all copiers made that way or just Epson's? Marta On Aug 8, 2005, at 16:50, Mike Watkins wrote:
> Marta, > > Jerry Yeager told me once that our printers mix several colors with > the black ink to print black. I forgot why he said it works that way. > Mine does the same thing. Jerry's a wise man... I have a poor memory > for details. > > Mike > > > On Aug 8, 2005, at 4:23 PM, 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. >> Marta -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 1263 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20050808/1b8da850/attachment.bin
