posted on August 7, 2001 08:23:01 AM new
This was weird!
My LexMark, like most current inkjet printers, has a black cartridge and a color cartridge.
I went to print on Sunday night and the test print came out find, addresses were in blue, everything else was in black -- EXCEPT the indicia! The text around it was black, but the indicida code was in a dark GREEN!
Odd, I thought.
So I ran the rest of the my labels and the same thing happened! I thought it was because the color was being used for the addresses, so I just set everything to be black and it was -- except the indicia, which remained GREEN!
I finally ran a full page test print and it turns out my red ink was out. So the yellow and blue were producing the green color.
But my question is is WHY? Why doesn't this section just print in true black? There is no option to change the color of the indicia, and the DAZZLE software doesn't let you access the full print setup (telling it to print black only).
So the software is apparently trying to print this barcoded section in mixed black instead of true black. Everything else printed in true black.
posted on August 7, 2001 08:31:15 AM new
Who knows why LexMark printers do what they do? I got one free with my last Dell system and it is the biggest piece of junk I have ever owned. I have had TONS of trouble with the color cartridges on it not printing correct colors even when it is not out of ink. LexMark even replaced one that would never print right. I'm replacing it with a good old reliable Epson as soon as I can. Wonder what would happen if you went into the printer setup and told it to print everything black only? I would try this on a test print, not waste postage or labels on it, but just test print on plain paper with the printer set to black only. See what you get.
posted on August 7, 2001 08:38:35 AM new
But, as I said, Dazzle doesn't expose this part of the printer setup to you. And it's done on a print by print basis.
posted on August 7, 2001 03:52:02 PM new
We think this is a distinction made by the Lexmark printer firmware or the printer driver, wherein a graphic image is treated differently from a text component. So the printer handled the black text fine, but tried to create the graphic indicium using a mixture of RGB. Since Red was empty, you ended up with a blue-green indicium.
Interestingly, there are no USPS restrictions on indicium color and the barcode is very likely scannable even in it's "green state".
HTH
Harry Whitehouse
Endicia
[ edited by HarryWhitehouse on Aug 7, 2001 03:52 PM ]
