looks at ink cart, see's it's still got 40% of it's contents in there - "hey bud there's still ink-"
"FUCK YOU PAY ME." -- HP Innovation
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The reason this happens is to prevent counterfeiting money.
From Snopes:
Do Household Printers Leave an Invisible Tracking Code on All Your Printed Documents?
Mostly true.
What's True
Numerous brands of color laser printers leave coded metadata in barely perceptible yellow dots that can be used to trace a printed document to its source, a feature originally intended as a deterrent to counterfeiting currency with laser printers.
What's Undetermined
While a majority of laser printers are designed to produce this secret metadata, it is unclear exactly how many printing companies and models employ the technology.
this is how printers meet crowbars and baseball bats.
In that case you show dominance by removing the other colors one by one until it prints
it needs the cyan to barter for black with the fairies of the ink dimension
when the demons come to devour, they will not notice the most clever, they will eat the most ANNOYING
it's an old silly, hey! you could call it a meme! we used to genocide at low resolution!
Brother printers can lick my salty nuts for exactly this reason.
It is not brothers fault. It was something they were forced to do.
More generally, I have found Brother to be the least worst printer company.
If you are only printing text, a low end brother laser printer is by far your best option.
If you are printing less than a couple of hundred colour pages a year you are better off going to a print shop to do so as it will be cheaper.
If you are printing more than a couple of hundred colour pages a years look into Epson ecotank printers as they are the most cost effective option.
The printer wouldn't even scan without ink though.
I'm also not in the USA.
cost effective
cost efficient
cost-effective (adj): If an activity is cost-effective, it is good value for the amount of money paid:
there is no difference of meaning between cost-effective and cost-efficient.
Iirc even when printing black-and-white and specifically not choosing to print in color, the printer still uses some of the other colors to get a more “true” black. So in order to legit print in just black-and-white, you want a monochrome printer - otherwise, the printer will keep using smaller amounts of other ink for the black colors.
You're close. True black, like black text, will use black only. But any slightly off shade of black will combine all other colors to make some kind of grey because if you're using a color printer grey isn't just "less black". You can fix this by either setting your color printer to black only or grayscale, or like you said getting a monochromatic laser printer.
After the last Canon inkjet printer clogged up, just like the last one did, and the one before it, I just got a small Laserjet monochrome to see if I can beat the system.