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reply to batsona

Re: Cannon MP620 ink usage...

Now THAT sounds like the most plausible solution yet:

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The large black cartridge contains pigment ink and is used when you tell the printer you are printing on plain paper. The small black cartridge contains dye ink and is used when you tell the printer you are printing on any kind of photo paper. If you are desperate and want to get something printed before getting a new large black cartridge, you can tell your printer that you are printing on matte paper and it will use the small dye ink cartridge, but you really should get your large black cartridge replaced as soon as possible.
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We'll give it a try. I guess we'll just have to print grayscale on photo-paper to start using that cartridge on the LH side (see screenshot in orig msg)

reply to Mdoc
I think I've got it - after a week of printing greyscale on matte paper, I noticed that the LH side cartridge has dropped just a tad..! We'll leave it like this - when printing out emails, if they have a drop of color in them etc etc - it's not important to see that really.. we'll just print it in greyscale.

Then, when one of the kids has a school project, we'll turn on color-mode. It's OK to replace one black cartiridge at a time - it's better than my other printer that had one color cartrige, and combined them all to make black. ---I was ready to sign up for cartridge-of-the-week club - that's how often I'd need one on that old printer.

As a response, I was thinkin' "happy coloring," but I'll change that to "happy greyscaling." And happy thanksgiving!