On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Brett Rasmussen <[email protected] > wrote:
> Barry (or any other of you PLUG mavens), I've also been going on the > assumption that a color printer, even a color laser printer, would have > toner cartridges for black and then one each for R, G, and B, and that the > extra cartridges would take up space so that the black cartridge would have > to be smaller and therefore need to be replaced more frequently. > > Is my assumption right? > I don't know, but HP (at least they used to) publish the number of pages a cartridge should print. It shouldn't be too hard to compare the published numbers between a black cartridge for a color printer and one for a b&w only printer. And the color toners are generally cyan, magenta, yellow, and black ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_pigments). /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
