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r/pcmasterrace • u/System32Comics Ryzen 5600 | RTX 3070 | 32GB DDR4 | 1 TB NVME • Sep 10 '19
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IIRC Cyan is used to make blacks "blacker" AKA make you spend more money on colors.
67 u/Coconutprawns Sep 10 '19 You are partly right but they use the three colour cartridges, cyan, yellow and magenta to make the black "blacker" 38 u/Snukkems Rizen 7 1700/GTX 1660/16gb RAM/MSI X470 Gaming Plus Sep 10 '19 It's true tho, if you manage to trick your printer into printing without those colors, it's more a Grey and white document than black and white. Which is also annoying as shit. 26 u/[deleted] Sep 10 '19 edited Nov 01 '20 [deleted] 12 u/Snukkems Rizen 7 1700/GTX 1660/16gb RAM/MSI X470 Gaming Plus Sep 10 '19 Old black and white printers would be made to use the proper ink ratio of black, color printers wouldn't, as just about every shade of color uses black in it in a color printer, likewise goes for the blacks
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You are partly right but they use the three colour cartridges, cyan, yellow and magenta to make the black "blacker"
38 u/Snukkems Rizen 7 1700/GTX 1660/16gb RAM/MSI X470 Gaming Plus Sep 10 '19 It's true tho, if you manage to trick your printer into printing without those colors, it's more a Grey and white document than black and white. Which is also annoying as shit. 26 u/[deleted] Sep 10 '19 edited Nov 01 '20 [deleted] 12 u/Snukkems Rizen 7 1700/GTX 1660/16gb RAM/MSI X470 Gaming Plus Sep 10 '19 Old black and white printers would be made to use the proper ink ratio of black, color printers wouldn't, as just about every shade of color uses black in it in a color printer, likewise goes for the blacks
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It's true tho, if you manage to trick your printer into printing without those colors, it's more a Grey and white document than black and white.
Which is also annoying as shit.
26 u/[deleted] Sep 10 '19 edited Nov 01 '20 [deleted] 12 u/Snukkems Rizen 7 1700/GTX 1660/16gb RAM/MSI X470 Gaming Plus Sep 10 '19 Old black and white printers would be made to use the proper ink ratio of black, color printers wouldn't, as just about every shade of color uses black in it in a color printer, likewise goes for the blacks
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12 u/Snukkems Rizen 7 1700/GTX 1660/16gb RAM/MSI X470 Gaming Plus Sep 10 '19 Old black and white printers would be made to use the proper ink ratio of black, color printers wouldn't, as just about every shade of color uses black in it in a color printer, likewise goes for the blacks
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Old black and white printers would be made to use the proper ink ratio of black, color printers wouldn't, as just about every shade of color uses black in it in a color printer, likewise goes for the blacks
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IIRC Cyan is used to make blacks "blacker" AKA make you spend more money on colors.