Why HP makes printing so miserable?

[carloslebaron]

I have the warning light that color cartridge is low.

The printing comes purple color rather than black.

I performed the diagnosis and cleaning.

In both (diagnosis and cleaning) the printing comes almost normal, yellow color is missing.

Now well, I don't need colors when I print documents in black and white, and the color cartridge has not "gone" entirely.

Still the printer won't print in black color. And to make things worst, after the blue color is gone, the printer chooses to print in red, but never in black.

Why HP wants to FORCE ME buying a color cartridge when I don't need it?

With the whole new technology of precision, why the HP printers don't just have options or automatic settings of print pages with color independent of the other cartridge? In this case, black color cartridge use being 100% independent of color cratridge status?

If I find any old printer or a brand of a new printer which won't bother and try to force the customer to buy "new cartridges" when these are not gone completely, then I surely won't consider HP as an option anymore.

 I truly miss the old printers when one can use after market ink, the printer kept doing the job when one of the color ink was gone, etc.

The question is, why HP looks for their greedy profit only and won't provide a good and easy to use printer with black color cartridge independent of their color cartridge?

[Repairatrooper]

If you do not print color, buy a monochrome printer and you will not have this problem. The reason that most printers want the color is that when they print grey they use a composite of all colors.

[RobertOl]

To try to minimize the use of the color cartridges you can put your printdriver in black&white settings.

As above said, this is how it works. And it's not only HP, mostly all MFP printers for all brands works like this nowdays.