CAN I USE ONLY 1 CARTRIDGE, OR DO I HAVE TO USE ALL 4 COLORS?

[Pooky_2_Bear]

MY COLOR INK ALWAYS GOES OUT FASTER THEN THE BLACK INK..ON THE CARTRIDGES...ALOT OF TIMES I HAVE TO PRINT WITH COLOR, BUT I TRY TO CHANGE IT TO BLACK INK ONLY, BUT DOESN'T WORK ALOT OF TIMES FOR ME..MY QUESTION IS CAN I JUST USE THE BLACK INK(CARTRIDGE) IN MY PRINTER, OR DO I HAVE TO USE THE COLOR ONES AS WELL?,  AND DO I HAVE TO LEAVE THE COLOR CARTRIDGES IN THE PRINTER....HOPE THIS MAKES SENSE!?..I REALLY DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO GO BUY NEW COLOR CARTRIDGES FOR MY PRINTER!!!...AGAIN!!!!!

THANK YOU

[banhien · Accepted solution]

Hi,

I think your printer is an HP Officejet 4620 or 4610. Anyway, inkjet prnters need all ink cartridges to keep up and running, they would stop at the warming up process when they detect something is missing, 

You can tell your printer to print Black ink onlt using the following steps: (for Windows):

(a) Double click printer icon on desktop,
(b) Click Set Preferences,
(c) Click Advanced,
(d) Select "Black Ink only" for Print in Grayscale
(e) Click Ok/Apply ...

Note: As mentioned above: Printer still needs all color inks and it will consume a very small amount of inks during warmng up process.

Regards.

[Pooky_2_Bear]

Ok Thank You, also on the Advanced area, do I make sure the Media is in Plain Paper..because it was set for HP something...and wanted to change Black grey scale back to Color, But when I changed it to Plain Paper..it seems to be Fine and holding, So was that right??...:smileyvery-happy:

[Bob_Headrick]

Yes, if you are using plain paper you should set that in the driver.  Photo paper is not compatible with the black ink, if you select HP Photo paper  in the driver it will use color ink even to print black text.