I had a similar problem once with a canon. Seems the printer was using the
color cartridge to print B&W. I had to "tell" the printer to use the black
ink cartridge for B&W. Hope this helps.

Regards,
db

 -----Original Message-----
From:   PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]  On Behalf Of Chuck Finnigan
Sent:   Monday, February 19, 2001 2:49 PM
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Subject:        [PCBUILD] speeding up an HP840

we recently replaced an ailing HP520 with a 840 and notice a marked slowdown
in pring B/W documents. are there any tricks i can configure to speed it up?
spooling? RAW? etc? what about using the USB rather than the parallel
connection?
thank you
Chuck Finnigan
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