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printer black color turns to gray under LCD?

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imported_asfd

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I installed my dell 2001fp LCD, and replaced my HP 930 printer cartrige, however, the black ink
turns out to be gray instead of black. Is it caused by the LCD color setting? Thanks for any suggestion.
 
You'll probably have to come back with some information on this. The way your message is worded right now it looks as though you're trying to establish a direct cause-and-effect relationship between LCD display settings and the way black ink prints out on your printer. No such relationship exists.

I'll make a guess. You changed to a new display, the Dell LCD, and picture areas and text which used to print out black are now printing out gray on your printer. If this is the case, then you need to remember that you replaced something else -- the printer cartridge. My guess would be that your printer cartridge is screwy.

But it's also possible that something changed your printer driver settings. If you ran some sort of utility to try to make your monitor and printer output look the same it might have such an effect.

If I'm barking up the wrong tree then you might try replying with a really precise description of what it is that you are doing and what it is that you are observing.
 
to jaykleg, yes, what you guessed is right. I am confused if the cause was the LCD or the ink cartridge,
because black color under LCD is grey, that is where my doubt comes from. So it is solely caused by the cartridge then. I did change couple cartridges but still cannot print the black (grey), maybe something wrong with it.

to Abhi, I will try it. but as I remember, all the texts are grey before, is it related to the LCD?

Thank you guys all.
 
I'm still not sure that I understand your situation. What do you mean when you say "because black color under LCD is grey, that is where my doubt comes from" and "all the texts are grey before"? Please try to be precise.

If you type some text in a notepad window -- is the text black on the LCD screen? If you print out what you have typed in notepad, what color of ink do you get on paper?

Did you run any sort of utility that is supposed to make monitor and printer output match each other?
 
Hi jaykleg,

sorry for bad description. If I type text in notepad, the text is black on LCD screen. However, when I
print it out, it is grey (observed on IE, not try notepad yet).
what do you mean "any sort of utility that is supposed to make monitor and printer output match each other? " I didn't run any software like that except the Dell driver for my 2001fp.

Thanks.
 
sorry for bad description. If I type text in notepad, the text is black on LCD screen. However, when I
print it out, it is grey (observed on IE, not try notepad yet).
what do you mean "any sort of utility that is supposed to make monitor and printer output match each other? " I didn't run any software like that except the Dell driver for my 2001fp.
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Your description wasn't bad. I think I was just skipping the groove. 😉 And I wanted to be sure I understood what you were saying.

What I meant about a "utility that is supposed to make monitor and printer output match each other" was something like the software from Adobe that is designed to make sure that you have color matching between monitor -- so that images printed look exactly the way they looked on the monitor, an important thing for people doing certain types of desktop publishing and also those printing photographs. I doubt that the Dell driver for the 2001fp did this.

You know what? What you're describing could be caused by a malfunction of the black cartridge. If your printer (I'm not familiar with the model.) has a separate black and color cartridge, and the black cartridge doesn't work, the printer may try to "create" a black. And black created by mixing color inks on most of these printers is a kind of purplish (to me) gray color. If you changed the black ink cartridge for another one and still have the same problem I'm thinking that something is wrong with the slot into which the black ink cartridge is plugged. Or it might just be the printer driver settings, too, as someone has already mentioned. But I don't think those would have been changed without deliberate action on your part.

There are a lot of things you can do to start checking. You can check to be sure that the cartridge is connected correctly (film cover removed from contacts, cartridge firmly seated). You can also check to be sure that the driver hasn't been set to do something odd (density turned way down or some such). And you might try hooking up a printer you know to be working well on another computer to see if it works well on your computer. (Unless it's the same printer model it will require a different driver, possibly complicating matters rather than simplifying them. It's just something to consider if you aren't having any luck otherwise.)

But it's almost got to be the printer itself, or the driver, that is misbehaving.

 
jaykleg,

You are superb! It is true that my black int cartridge is not working, so the supposed black turns out to be purplish gray like you said. This is odd, I swear that I didn't do sth evil before I changed the cartridge.
Well, maybe it is time to dump this 4-year old HP930.

THank you all for your kind suggestions.
 
I'm glad to see that you've figure it out, but I'm sorry that you've got a hardware problem. I'm also sorry that you've purchased new cartridges that might go to waste now. Maybe your replacement printer will be able to use the same cartridges.

Inkjet printers are really annoying. They're a little better now than they used to be. I used to get about a year out of the consumer grade ones before they would start misfeeding paper and doing other dumb stuff. Now they seem to last several years, but the cost of consumables is very high. If you use an inkjet system a lot you can easily spend several times the cost of the printer in consumables every year.

If you don't need to do color printing a low-cost laser printer might be a good thing to consider. They certainly cost far less to operate.

Now begins your problem. What to buy. There is a bewildering array of manufacturers and models out there. People who offer you opinions about them, even the most knowledgable of them, will only have seen a tiny sample of those printers. And it's not like you could ask a printer repair guy. These printers are disposable. No one has that much experience fixing them.

Good luck!
 
The 930 is a terrific printer. The ink costs are a problem though. If you don't mind the ink costs, just get another black.
 
I believe that asfd already changed out a couple of black cartridges to no avail. I think he's considering the possibility that the printer's slot or connector for the cartridge may be defective. In that case buying another cartridge wouldn't do much good.

I agree the the HP 900 series (the ones I've seen, anyway) are good printers. But I don't think they're really made to last more than a few years. They do wear out after a while, and you usually can't repair them. It's essentially disposable technology.
 
Actually the pin on the printer to contact the black ink cartridge is gone. I doubt that my old blank int
cartridge was leaking a little bit, so it was sticky, and the pin was stuck to the cartridge and was taken away when I changed the cartridge. Anyway, I may start considering a cheap laser printer, Thank
you guys all.
 
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