HP problem

[WhiteTea]

I have an HP photo printer and have been very pleased with it. I like
the ability to just change individual colors.

I think HP "accidentally" forgot to write in the program to just print
Black when that cartridge
has plenty of ink.

I have one cartridge that is out of color and it thinks that Magenta
is necessary to print black.

Any workarounds ?

Thanks.

 

[Don Phillipson]

I have an HP photo printer and have been very pleased with it. I like
the ability to just change individual colors.

I think HP "accidentally" forgot to write in the program to just print
Black when that cartridge
has plenty of ink.

I have one cartridge that is out of color and it thinks that Magenta
is necessary to print black.

Any workarounds ?

1. This behavior is normal, i.e. most makes require that colour
ink be available before printing anything, even monochrome black.
2. For workarounds (if any) you may get better help in a NG
for printers e.g. comp.periphs.printers.

 

[WhiteTea]

1. This behavior is normal, i.e. most makes require that colour
ink be available before printing anything, even monochrome black.
2. For workarounds (if any) you may get better help in a NG
for printers e.g. comp.periphs.printers.

Thanks, I'll ask there.

 

[WhiteTea]

Gray scale printing usually uses the color cartridges. The
black cartridge alone is not capable of printing the subtle
shades of gray. The black cartridge is used for, text only,
printing.

You gave me an idea I hadn't tried. I will try printing with black ink
only.

If that doesn't work and a printer group doesn't have any answer,
I may write a small assembly program to fix it.

Andy

 

[jaster]

Gray scale printing usually uses the color cartridges. The black
cartridge alone is not capable of printing the subtle shades of gray.
The black cartridge is used for, text only, printing.

I've done it before with a Lexmark printer. Color cartridge gums up,
shows color cart has some with ink but doesn't print any color, set
printer to gray scale and the printer prints gray scale from black
cartridge no problem.

 

[david]

I have an HP photo printer and have been very pleased with it. I like
the ability to just change individual colors.

I think HP "accidentally" forgot to write in the program to just print
Black when that cartridge
has plenty of ink.

I have one cartridge that is out of color and it thinks that Magenta is
necessary to print black.

Any workarounds ?

Thanks.

Uh, refill the magenta cartridge?

 

[WhiteTea]

Uh, refill the magenta cartridge?

Thank you all for your responses.

I posted on comp.periphs.printers.
I think you will find some of the reponses humorous.

Andy