Re: Printing Problem

[Brian Barker]

At 09:46 05/12/2020 +, Stella Peppercorn wrote:
I have a problem printing in Black ink from OpenOffice 4.1.8. The 
printer is an [Epson Expression Home] XP-245. It will not print 
black from OpenOffice. All I get is a shadow with lines across. But 
if I PrintScreen into Paint is will print from there correctly. So 
the black cartridge is working.


I don't think that's obvious, in fact.


I have reloaded Open Office, ...


Unlikely to be relevant or useful.


... and the Printer Driver.


Good scheme.

[...] If I change the font colour to Dark Yellow, say, it will print 
but this is a combination of the colour cartridges. What on earth is 
the problem and how can I solve it please?


I think this is all consistent with your black ink cartridge being 
empty or blocked or otherwise faulty. When you print black text from 
OpenOffice, only the black cartridge and its ink will be used. But 
when you use Print Screen to copy the appearance of the OpenOffice 
editing screen into Paint, everything becomes part of a picture, and 
the text you thought was black is now something very much 
approximating black, but as part of colour picture. So the effect 
when you print from Paint will be that the colour ink cartridges will 
be used, possibly also with the black cartridge to increase contrast. 
In other words, what Paint is doing to create the almost black it 
wants is to combine the colour cartridges, just as does your dark yellow.


There are obvious ways to test this. Start (Windows) Notepad and 
write a few words. Print that: I predict that you will find that this 
fails too - confirming that it is not OpenOffice that is at fault but 
very probably your black cartridge. Alternatively, go to Start | 
Settings | Devices | Printer & Scanners. Click on your printer and 
click Manage. Click "Print a test page". Again, if the black text 
that should be part of this fails to print properly and clearly, your 
black cartridge is empty, blocked, or otherwise faulty.


I imagine that the software that was supplied with your printer 
incudes the facility to display the current ink levels. If the black 
cartridge is empty, you have your solution; if it still contains ink, 
it may be blocked or not fitted properly. It seems that the 
cartridges are also transparent, so that you can take out your black 
cartridge and simply see if there is remaining ink.


There is at least one other, far more complicated possibility, 
involving your OpenOffice text not being black (perhaps white) but 
appearing legible in the editing screen because of high contrast or 
similar settings in Windows. But you'd probably know if you had arranged that.


I trust this helps.

Brian Barker


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Re: Printing Problem

[David Belina]

The problem may not be with Open Office.  Here is a link to a page to removing 
black ink printing problems I found using an internet search.
https://www.ldproducts.com/blog/printer-wont-print-black-what-to-do/


On December 5, 2020 at 8:02:13 AM, Julian THOMAS (j...@jt-mj.net) wrote:

XP-245

Re: Printing Problem

[Julian THOMAS]

I am not familiar with that printer but many have 2 black tanks - one for B&W 
and one for black tones when printing color. 

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> On Dec 5, 2020, at 04:50, Stella Peppercorn  
> wrote:
> 
> I have a problem printing in Black ink from OpenOffice 4.1.8
> The printer is an XP-245. It will not print black from OpenOffice .  All I 
> get is a shadow with lines across. But if I PrintScreen into Paint is will 
> print from there correctly.  So the black cartridge is working.
> I have reloaded Open Office, and the Printer Driver. I have also tried USB 
> connection and WiFi. Nothing cures this.
> If I change the font colour to Dark Yellow, say, it will print but this is a 
> combination of the colour cartridges.
> What on earth is the problem and how can I solve it please?
> 
> 
> Sent from Mail for Windows 10
> 

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Printing Problem

[Stella Peppercorn]

I have a problem printing in Black ink from OpenOffice 4.1.8
The printer is an XP-245. It will not print black from OpenOffice .  All I get 
is a shadow with lines across. But if I PrintScreen into Paint is will print 
from there correctly.  So the black cartridge is working.
I have reloaded Open Office, and the Printer Driver. I have also tried USB 
connection and WiFi. Nothing cures this.
If I change the font colour to Dark Yellow, say, it will print but this is a 
combination of the colour cartridges.
What on earth is the problem and how can I solve it please?


Sent from Mail for Windows 10

Re: printing problem

[johnny smith]

On Sun, 23 Mar 2014 21:53:05 -, skyking @sisna.com  
wrote:


I am using a Dell laptop using Windows XP professional with a Lexmark Z645
printer.

The printer works ok with Microsoft Wordpad, but not with Apache.


if it also works ok with adobe reader or any other pdf reader, then you may 
export your file as pdf and print that pdf. for example, sumatrapdf reader, a 
standalone application few megabytes in size, prints through a native windows 
interface, identical to that of notepad and wordpad. hopefully, it would work 
with your printer.

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