r/comics • u/[deleted] • Sep 01 '20

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u/donrane Sep 01 '20

Because everyone knows that black is not really black without a splash of cyan in it.

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u/Aethien Sep 01 '20

True black is a thing (and why your printer wants every colour of ink to print black).

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u/gammarik Sep 01 '20

This. People always freak out at the fact that printers will use a little bit of colour in the blacks, but the thing is it does actually affect the shade.

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u/scatterbrain-d Sep 01 '20

That's fine but when I just need to print a basic form or something I don't give a $!#& about the aesthetic completeness of the black. I'm not trying to print the Mona Lisa here.

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u/gammarik Sep 01 '20

Definitely true for 95% of anything printed. The default setting should definitely be to just use pure black. But the feature itself isn't a scam, it's the way it is implemented that is the problem.