Printing in black and white

[Mr Moo]

I know this must sound like the daftest thing anyone has ever heard but
i cant seem to set my printer to black and white only, i have ran out
of colour ink but have a full cartridge of black but im having no hope
changing them over. im using windows xp and my printer is a Dell photo
all in one printer 922.

Can anyone help me please its doing my head in?????

 

[Guest]

Cannot be done! Even printing only black documents still requires the
use of the color cartridges. There is one possibility that you can try, but
may not work, is to print in Gray scale, some units will print but many will
not.
If not, buy a color cartridge to solve it.

 

[Uncle Joe]

Every modern inkjet printer I know of ceases to print when any
one of its ink cartridges expires. You must replace the expired
cartridge(s) in every case to resume printing. Why this is for
black printing is beyond me. I don't understand why color
cartridges are used when printing black text only but that's the
way it is. It's the printer manufactuer's way of ensuring you'll
be joining the rest of us at the ink cartridge shelves.

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

The addition of Magenta makes the black look 'blacker'.

 

[Uncle Joe]

Thanks for the explanation, Cari.

Could live without the "blacker" black in order to
save on magenta ink, and to be able to use only
the black cartridge when printing text-only documents.
Oh, well. It's not going to happen... (Smile.)

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

Yeah, me to. It's the reason I spent a huge $14.50 on Ebay a couple of
years ago and purchased a very used Lexmark Optra S laser printer.... it's
still on the same toner cartridge I bought shortly afterwards. Shipping may
have been $50 but for everyday documents, it's perfect. And it saves a
small fortune in Canon ink!

 

[Box134]

Today new laser printers are unbelievably cheap. I got a Konica-Minolta
laser printer for $100 and I think that included shipping. It came with a
"starter" toner cartridge which will do me quite a while. A new cartridge is
probably 1.5 to 2 times the cost of many inkjet cartridges.

Colour lasers are within the reach of home users now too. Probably part of
the reason why black lasers are so cheap. I learned my lesson with my first
(and last) inkjet printer. Never again would I buy those grossly overpriced
inks. Not many people really need colour; I know what it's like... print a
colour picture and you think.... Hmmmm... just a few changes and I bet it'll
look better yet. Before long I've used up half a cartridge on
experimentation! Maybe I was just weak.

 

[Guest]

I just bought a Lexmark 3350 all-in-one inkjet printer scanner copier and
fax. I tried to refill the black cartridge, but the printer is forcing me to
buy a new cartridge. How do I over ride this restriction so the printer
works? It seems that the fill status can not be reset unless a new cartridge
is installed?....Help :-(