
Cost and colour
Printing in colour costs more than printing in black. To reduce the cost of colour printing, follow these guidelines:
■If possible, do not add colour to your graphics (especially fills) until you are ready to print the final version of the drawing.
■Instead of fill, you can set the option to fill coloured hatch patterns. Hatch patterns require less ink for printing.
■Use lighter colours created with more white space. For example, use pink instead of dark red. The printer does not produce white ink; it creates lighter colours by alternating colour dots and white dots so the lighter colours consume less ink.
■Avoid using full colour backgrounds. If you have to use a full colour background, do not set the background for colour until you are ready for the final printing.
■Use the primary colours: black, cyan, magenta and yellow. Complex colours like red or blue, require more than one primary colour and con- sume more ink.
■Some software applications allow you to condense several pages of data onto one page for draft printing. If this mode is available, use it for view- ing and draft printing to reduce ink consumption.
■When the BJ Cartridge is set for Black/Colour printing in the printer dri- ver, install and use the Black BJ Cartridge
■Use the Color BJ Cartridge
■The Ink Optimizer is used only for printing on Plain Paper and is not used for print jobs on special media like Transparencies, High Resolution Paper, and so on.
■If you select draft mode for a print job with the Black BJ Cartridge
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