Reply To: NEWBIE: Black turning to grey

Unless you need to print using black only, my suggestion is to try adding 10% Cyan, 10% Magenta and 10% Yellow to the black. So a 50% Black would become 5/5/5/50 (CMYK). Alternatively you could add 20% Cyan and skip the rest, if you want a cooler black rather than the warmer, thicker black of 10/10/10/100 (CMYK).

I found I have to do this to most jobs I print on our Canon CLC4040 to get nice, solid grays and blacks.