HP Deskjet 695c Printer - Manual (Page 37)

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About color
Believe it or not, your color printer prints with only four colors—cyan, magenta,
yellow, and black. By printing overlapping dots of different intensity and color, it
creates practically any color you can imagine.
Your printer is especially smart about printing color. (That’s why HP called the
technology ColorSmart™!) When you print a document in color, the printer marks
each element in your document—text, full-color photographs, and graphics (such
as pie charts with solid blocks of color)—and renders each at its vivid best. (If you
use the photo cartridge when you print color photographs, you’ll get photo-quality
images!) Not only is the color quality high, for whatever you’re printing, but it’s also
less expensive than making color copies at a copy shop.
How to turn off color
The color text and pictures that you create in your documents automatically print
in color. You can print drafts of your color documents in grayscale if you’re going
to photocopy them or if you want to save time and ink.
● In the HP print settings dialog box, click the Color tab, and then click Print in
Grayscale.
Now your color documents print in shades of gray until you change the setting.
For faster draft printing in grayscale, use the black print cartridge, not the photo
cartridge.
Black Cyan Yellow Magenta
A “✓” means that color is turned off.
What If The printed colors
don’t match the screen
colors
Because of the physics of
how color is made on
screen (with light) and at
the printer (with dyes and
pigments), there might
always be a slight
mismatch.
However, if the differences
are dramatic the wrong
cartridge might be in the
printer—insert the photo
cartridge for printing
photographs; insert the
black print cartridge for
printing other pictures
and text.
The colors aren’t
as vivid as they
should be
The printer might be low
on ink. Or you might be
printing on the wrong side
of the paper. If turning the
paper over makes no
difference, change the
quality of printing to Best.
If you’re using a special
paper, change the Paper
Type setting to match the
paper. (Step 1 in How to
print on standard paper
sizes on page 8 tells how.)