Stainless steel dust (SSD) can be utilized as the primary raw material for the production of Fe-Cr-Ni-Mn system black ceramicpigments because it is high in transition metal elements. However, in addition to the ingredients required for the preparationof black pigments, it also contains some impurity elements like Ca, Mg, Si and Zn, and the influence of these impurity elementson the coloring performance of the pigments is unclear. In this paper, pure chemical reagents were used as raw materials tosimulate the main components of SSD for the solid-phase synthesis of black ceramic pigments doped with various impuritycomponents (CaO, MgO, SiO2 and ZnO). The results show that the doping of MgO can improve the purity of the preparedblack ceramic pigments, whereas CaO, SiO2 and ZnO can turn the pigments become reddish yellow. In the doped samples,ZnO and MgO mainly react with Fe2O3 to form ZnFe2O4 and MgFe2O4. In addition, CaO reacts with Fe2O3 to generateCaFe4O7. The reactions described above can increase the average crystallite size and distort the crystal lattice of the crystalsin the pigment samples. Moreover, SiO2 exists in amorphous form among spinel grains.