Why your printer needs magenta just to print in black and white?

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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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Because the people who made printers want you to buy a new printer cartridge.
They make close to nothing on the printers, they make money on the inks.
They’ve configured the computer programming parts of the printer to say you are out of ink, so you go out and buy more ink.

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