viscountalpha
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that is a setting in some printers. It is because it not only uses black but mixes all colors together along with black to print black when printing in color mode. If you are only printing monocolor pages it is sometimes best / needed to tell the printer to only print in monocolor.
I have had that happen to me a few times trying to go with whatever cheap crap I could find. After having a few knock offs dump all their toner out into the printer or causing damage to printers that made replacing them the cheapest route to get back to a working printer I decided to stay with more name brand stuff or at the very least known and trusted 3rd party. That said I never found lexmark to be that bad as they sold their own refurbed toner cartridges. Although even one of those came once with the cap out and all the fiber spilled out into the page. Nothing like breathing in a cloud of toner dust froming opening a bag.
While a legitimate issue that could have been solved with "non specific parts void warranty"