What happens when you don't replace the grey cartridge. I print mostly black and white documents. Seems like such a waste.
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Rob, the printer won't work without the grey cartridge. I tried to put a black one and it's too smart. :-) Hope that helps. I just got a good deal on grey cartridges three for $10 plus on Amazon. From Sherman Inks and toners. Great buy.
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Rob it won't work, once the cartridge is empty the printer will not print. so it's best to buy a new cartridge.
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I have an older Epson and was wanting to replace it for that very reason. I can't print anything when any color is out. So it says I need to replace the light blue and won't let me print anything until I do. Since I never use color, I'm guessing the blue just dried out. At any rate, I can't figure how to override that and just use black. Maybe it is just an Epson thing, as you said, to get us to buy more ink. I'm with you, I want to keep going until the ink fades and I can really see it is almost out.
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Yes that's what I found also. I'm not sure if the "pads"inside the cartridge dried out very quickly or what, but I used 2 sets of the cartridges (color/black) & they worked fine. After that the other cartridges didn't work. Cleaned them etc. Still nothing. They printed for the test print, but wouldn't print anything else.
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I hardly ever use my printer and it has not been a problem leaving in the cartridges. I think your cartridge would dry out (maybe) either way, so why take them out?
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How about ink usage? Will it print if one of the colors is out? Or, does it completely shut down and make you buy a new color cartridge before it will print again?Thanks.
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No. After it runs out of a certain amount of color ink it will absolutely refuse to print, even with a full new black ink when you are trying to print in just black. It's really a rip off and I don't plan on buying one of these again. Right now I have a complete paperweight until I can afford some color ink, even though I never print in color.
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This is annoying feature -- it does sometimes, but not always. Currently, I have to run up to Office Depot to get a yellow replacement cartridge (6 miles away) to print out black and white docments. Then, go back to town with said documents. Ridiculous.
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I'm really not sure? I have seen answers that you can use a black cartridge in place of the grey space but don't know this answer?
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I would just think you would put the black and white cartridge and leave the color one out and on your settings on the printer just put it on either grayscale or black and white and it might work that way. Sometimes, however both cartridges have to be in to work at all. Maybe the Canon site would have some information on that for you.
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Printing when one cartridge is empty: I have some experience w/this. If you are printing grayscale (for black) and your black has ink and one other cartridge didn't, doc will print. If you are printing w/color and one of those is empty, you will get a message. Not sure if it would print, never tried that.
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I recently discovered that I can't print with this printer in black and white even though I'm out of the yellow ink. I find this needlessly annoying. What has yellow got to do with black? Aaarrgh.
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no in my case, I only use my printer to print in black and white and my color cartridges get empty in less than a year and I am unable to print in gray scale, I need a printer that I can use to print only black ink but unable to find a good one.
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o, just push it in. If you find it prints funny, such as missing out lines, just take out the cartridge and reinsert it. i found that happened when I changed the black one.
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I have had several Canon scanners. I've never tried making black/white copies without the color cartridge installed, but, the black/white copying still works after the color cartridge runs out. I just leave the color cartridge in the scanner until the black/white one runs out.
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I'm sure that vendors send out different quality products. Mine gave me tons of problems and seem to have permanently damaged my printer. Some colors refused to print, and the others were such low quality that the ink fades over time. Pictures that I printed with it turned all washed out after a month or so. The price looked tempting, but I might as well just have thrown my printer out. I guess that the worst is you might not know until you try printing, and its possible that the damage is done by then.
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Color and black and white are two separate cartridges. If you're not printing in color, then the color won't empty.
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I seldom use my printer and have never removed my cartridge. As far as I know it does not cause any problems. If you are concerned with the cartridge drying out - it would do that either way. (maybe)