What happens when the MOSTLY BLACK PAGES option is selected?
The HP Color LaserJet 3500, 3550, and 3700 printers employ a mechanism for partially disengaging color cartridges from the printing process in order to prevent wear of the color photoconductive drums and developers during black-only printing. NOTE: It takes up to six seconds to disengage or engage the color cartridges. What about grayscale print jobs? If the Print in Grayscale option is selected in the printer driver for a particular print job, the printer will disengage the color cartridges for the extent of the print job. The color cartridges will disengage regardless of how the COLOR/BLACK MIX option is configured on the printer’s control panel. Usually, no performance penalty will be seen when the grayscale option is used, and cost-per-page is minimized for the duration of the job. Print speed may be affected when grayscale jobs and non-grayscale jobs are printed back-to-back. In that case, a pause of up to six seconds may be seen between print jobs. Tips for using grayscale print
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