Epson Artisan 835 using mainly LM, LC carts in plain paper color print

[alaa945]

My friends,
I noticed that my printer using mainly LM, LC instead of M,C while printing color documents
I am printing PDF book using adobe acrobat pro
I am using refill carts

this is the options of the epson print

Plain Paper / Bright color paper
color controls, Adobe RGB, 1.8
Normal quality (Text & Image)
high speed
Edge smoothing
2-slide printing

and this is the option of adobe acrobat

Acrobat color management
color profile : sRGB IEC61966-2.1 (sometimes using adobe RGB or samsung natural color pro 1.0 ICM)
output color : composite RBG
treat grays as K-only grays ON
preserve black ON
preserve CMYK primaries ON

so what is the problem?
when I check the Ink level in the printer monitor I found the level of LM,LC are mainly consumed not the M,C and when checking the carts ink level it is the same.

waiting your replay

Thanks

 

[Tin Ho]

Do your pdf files contain color images/graphs/texts of light colors? This should indicate why LC and LM inks are much consumed.

 

[qwertydude]

The Artisan line primarily seems to use LC and LM on photo paper and regular C and regular M on plain. It's in the printer's firmware, can't change that. I went through a couple "cartridges" on my CISS to try to figure out ink usage.

 

[OutOFtheinkwell]

I find that LC and LM are always the most used in both my Epson 1400 and Artisan 725 printers.
I do believe this is normal for these printers. I usually only refill the other colors every other time around.

 

[alaa945]

Do your pdf files contain color images/graphs/texts of light colors? This should indicate why LC and LM inks are much consumed.

yes, and also I think it is the main cause.

 

[alaa945]

I find that LC and LM are always the most used in both my Epson 1400 and Artisan 725 printers.
I do believe this is normal for these printers. I usually only refill the other colors every other time around.

Perhaps this is normal for this type of printers, Thanks

 

[OutOFtheinkwell]

Your very welcome Alaa and I'm assuming your finished color photographs are very good. Those printers with the "Claria" type dye based inks seem to do a good job for us consistently.
I have used printers that use pigment inks and I have had excellent result with those as well but I personally lean toward the dye based inks myself. At first I didn't realize how very important it was to match the correct paper with the right ink so I had mixed results but now the paper gets just as much attention as the inks and that is the answer to good printing in my opinion. I sent for a (Sample) paper offering that Red River paper makes available and that was a very good move for me as I got to try all the inks with the various papers so I could see first hand the differences paper choice makes. I think a sample box of Red River paper was under $9.00 and they give you a few sheets of just about all the papers that they carry so it's a good deal!