On Thursday 01 December 2005 07:01, G. Roderick Singleton wrote: >On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 01:57 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> Greetings all; >> >> I seem to have backed myself into a corner that I can't find a way >> out of. OOo-2.0.0 on a Linux x86 system. Gutenprint-5.0beta2 >> installed, along with the gimp 2.04 etc. >> >> But I'd made up a christmas card in OO back about 1.1.2 or so, and >> had made sure it would load ok as the versions were updated, >> currantly saved as an .odt file. It loads fine in both 1.1.5 and in >> 2.0.0. >> >> Someplace, in the myriad of menu's, there is an option that allowed >> me to turn on the use of the black ink when printing. Thinking was >> that it would automaticly do some color under removal & save some >> color ink where it wasn't doing anything but making black the hard >> way. >> >> Unforch, that cranked the density up, way up, and converted >> all the text to black from its formerly multicolored condition, but >> only on the output on the printer, which takes about 20 minutes a >> page in 1440x1440 on a Epson C-82. . The print 'preview' however is >> still normal. >> >> Try as I can, I cannot uncover that option again so I can shut it >> off, and its eating a $30 black cartridge in about 10 prints. >> Unforch, I'd also made a position edit of the picture, and saved it, >> so now I seem to be stuck with a most unsatisfactory output on >> bi-fold christmas card stock at about 50 cents a sheet. >> >> Can anyone help? > >File > Print > Options > Contents > Print Black and uncheck it. Save >your doc to retain the new settings.
Odd, when I found it, it wasn't checked, and the last 2 christmas cards I did last night were ok. A wee touch light, so I took the britness down by .050 & gave the contrast an extra .050. This printer does amazingly well even at its age as long as I fed it dead matt paper. The epson inks & glossy aren't near as pretty & accurate. Odd, the next print is even lighter, it should be darker I think, so I'll take that .050 britness change back out. One of them things that make you go hummmmm... Thanks. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.36% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
