I get printers are way advanced now… but why do I need color(magenta) to simply print in black and white.
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Photographer here…
The problem are not printers tho, computers are, color profiles to be exact…
Color profiles determine the output of the certine color on the certine media ( Monitor,Hard paper,Soft paper, Toned paper etc. )… So, the software tries to replicate monitor black which is RGB to “paper black” which is CMYK, and that’s simply not a pure black or K because there’s no K in RGB…
Thus, if you want to print with K only you need to adjust color profile to do so, but it won’t be the black you see on the screen,simply because there’s no black in RGB, just combination of Red-Green-Blue and lack of light…
Hope it makes sense…
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