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Old 06-05-2006   #1 (permalink)
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Default What color do you run out of first?
My HP Deskjet 720C printer has a black cartridge and a separate color cartridge with cyan, yellow, and magenta inks. I was just wondering if others consistently ran out of yellow first as I do.


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Default Re: What color do you run out of first?
Light Cyan with an Epson SP2200, every time.
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Photo black with the Epson 1800....
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Photo black with the Epson 1800....
I would expect black to be used at a different rate. For that reason, it seems like kind of a brain-dead design decision to put black into a cartridge with the other colors unless perhaps some attempt was made to compensate with a different amount of black ink.
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I invariably run out of yellow first.
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i have a dye-sub printer hi-touch 730PS - so it does not run out of a colour as it uses a ribbon
but when I had a canon it tended to be yellow and the photo colours as i had 6 seperate catridges
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I always change the magenta first, followed by cyan and then yellow.
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Default Re: What color do you run out of first?
I run out of all of them too quickly, but cyan takes the cake followed by magenta and then yellow.
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Cyan, followed by Yellow, Magenta, blue, then black (not matte black) on an Epson R1800.

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Always magenta.
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Default Re: What color do you run out of first?
Most of my prints are of people. On an Epson 2200 I go through twice as many light magenta as anything else.
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Default Re: What color do you run out of first?
Light cyan followed by yellow - Epson 2400
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My Canon 9000 uses Photo magenta and Photo cyan and yellow the most.
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Default Re: What color do you run out of first?
Interesting how different everyone's ink usage is. With the Epson 4000 I go through light magenta first, then light cyan and then yellow.
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Always black, but that's because I have a laser printer
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Default Re: What color do you run out of first?
If you print a lot of light colored photos you will run out of yellow first as yellow is used to lighten a print, on the other side if you print a lot of darker colored photo's your color that you will run out of is cyan as that is the color responsible for darkening a print.
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Mine... with all the concert and artist shots, I run out of Photo Black and Matte Black first, then Magenta, Cyan and yellow... in that order. Gloss Optimizer I have only changed twice since I purchased the Epson 1800.
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light magenta on my epson 4000 pro but ive gone to 220ml cartridges now so they last a bit longer
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Default Re: What color do you run out of first?
In order: Cyan, Mag, yellow, gloss with an R1800. I have a bulk system coming in tomorrow so hopefully it will not be so much of a hassle, as no store within 100 miles of me stocks cartridges.


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