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WhiteTea

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Jan 20, 2009, 10:12:31 AM1/20/09
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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

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Jan 20, 2009, 11:26:29 AM1/20/09
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"WhiteTea" <WhiteT...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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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.

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Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)


jaster

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Jan 20, 2009, 2:51:17 PM1/20/09
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Can't you change the printer default (Printout mode) to just print gray
scale (B&W)?

Ian D

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Jan 20, 2009, 3:03:51 PM1/20/09
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"jaster" <jas...@home.net> wrote in message
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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.


WhiteTea

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Jan 20, 2009, 3:54:05 PM1/20/09
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On Jan 20, 10:26 am, "Don Phillipson" <e...@SPAMBLOCK.ncf.ca> wrote:
> "WhiteTea" <WhiteTea77...@yahoo.com> wrote in message

Thanks, I'll ask there.

WhiteTea

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Jan 20, 2009, 3:55:52 PM1/20/09
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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

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Jan 20, 2009, 4:49:10 PM1/20/09
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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.

Ian D

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Jan 20, 2009, 5:04:18 PM1/20/09
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"jaster" <jas...@home.net> wrote in message
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It depends on the printer. Usually, printers which have
integrated print heads in the cartridges don't care. I had
an HP 970cse that would print black text without the
color cartridges, but couldn't do gray scale. If the
print heads are separate from the cartridges, the printer
usually won't print with a missing or empty cartridge, to
prevent head burn-out. This applies to some Canon's.


david

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Jan 20, 2009, 8:52:30 PM1/20/09
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On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 07:12:31 -0800, WhiteTea rearranged some electrons to
say:

Uh, refill the magenta cartridge?

WhiteTea

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Jan 21, 2009, 3:50:07 PM1/21/09
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Thank you all for your responses.

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

Andy

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