HP OfficeJet 6500 will not print using black cartridge only

[asiacop]

A partial rset worked for me... Thanks

[PapaLes]

Black will not print. Tried new HP cart. Ran through all the service functions. Swapped black cart with my HP7000 , which take the same 920 cart, and it worked fine.  Cleaned cart carrier. .Does anyone have some suggestions.

[Bob_Headrick]

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PapaLes wrote:

Black will not print. Tried new HP cart. Ran through all the service functions. Swapped black cart with my HP7000 , which take the same 920 cart, and it worked fine.  Cleaned cart carrier. .Does anyone have some suggestions.

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Try the steps in this post.

[Aussiefinatic]

Hope that someone can help I am having the problem of setting the printer to only print in black but can not find a setting to have this fixed in the settings,

I tried to locate the printer driver HP Laserjet 4300 -Gutenprint v5.1.3 but could not find any reference to it on the HP site under OSX

Does anyone have a new driver that allows printing in B&W that is available, or can give me a link to download that Gutenprint driver???

Thanks for your help

David

[coolpillows]

I go back a few pages on this post w/the ppl who learned that multiple colors were being combined to make black, even though there was plenty of black left and all that horror.  I think it was the Gutenprint workaround that saved me the trouble.  I have virtually no color in my color print cartridges and just avoid printing color; I print everything in grey scale even if it's color.  (It's just not worth it.)  

I just got a new Mac mini and getting it connected to my printer, I was afraid I would have to go through the whole rigamarole again, but apparently, with adequate black ink and almost zero color, it's printing fine in black...using HP's latest print driver.  Maybe this problem was resolved in the latest iteration of the driver.  Maybe someone at HP was listening.  Just maybe.... 

[lynnmay]

Found Black Cartridge only.

Go to Paper Type/Quality.

Color options will appear below, in small script. Click drop down, select grayscale, the under black cartridge only will become an option.