Re: [NF] Printing Black Only with Empty Color Cartridge

[Charles Hart Enzer, M.D., FAACP]

  


Dear Pete:



Thank you for the Heads Up.



I should never had ditched my HP Deskjet 520 -- no problems and had it
two decades.

Just couldn't Scan and Fax.



I guess I will either buy new printers instead of cartridges -- printer
is less than a cartridge -- or go laser.



I print about 300 pages a month.



Pete Theisen wrote:

  Charles Hart Enzer, M.D., FAACP wrote:

  
  
    I have an HP Officejet Pro 8500 A909a Series.
    
  
  
  
  
    I print in Black only.  I have set the printer in Properties [Printing
Shortcuts]
    
  
  
  
  
       * [Fast/Economical Printing] * 
   * [Print in Grayscale] = [Black ink only] * 

Problems:
    
  
  
  
  
       * Color cartridges have emptied anyways * 
   * With empty cartridges, this All-in-One refuses to print. * 
    
  
  
Hi Dr. Charles,

You may be stuck with this behavior. We have an older model and we went 
through hell trying to get it to print without a filled color cartridge. 
Finally discovered that the operator was pressing the "print" button 
which called for a color copy. It was not obvious what to do when you 
wanted black only. There is "another" print button for black only.

We went round and round with HP, always the answer was you have to have 
color ink with this model. We still jump through hoops to get black 
copies. We use an Epson laser for printing, although the HP might print 
from a computer if we ever tried it.

HP likes to have a "jet" siphon into your bank account. In bed with M$.
  







-- Charles --

Website: http://TinyURL.com/EnzerMD





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