Lexmark Pinnacle Pro901 Can it print without color cartridge?
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According to Lexmark to print true black you need a bit of the colors as well. With my Canon I seldom used the color and they go down, it seems to me each time you start the machine it tests and uses ink. I wish they made it so you did not have to install the color tanks.
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I have a great suggestion, know that this feature has been disabled by Lexmark, they will send you a "Firmware update" that will make your printer completely useless. No longer will you be able to print without it drinking up your color ink and then you have to replace the color before it will print in black again. I hope for a class action suit that will help the consumer recover some of their losses from this sabotage!
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Hello mgreber, your printer doesn't require the gray cartridge (example of a printer that uses the grey cartridge Pixima MG6320). The main purpose of the grey cartridge is to give Black and White photos and even color photos, a more professional appearance. Hope this helps.
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No. It can also print with color carriages as well. It is a color printer after all ... but is that what you meant to ask? You might have meant to ask, "Can it print with only a black cartridge installed?" That's a different question, and I don't know the answer to that one.
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If you do mean can it print with only a black cartridge only, the answer is no. When it prints grayscale it actually uses some colored ink as well. It's annoying because when a color cartridge has a "replace" status you will no longer be able to print in B&W; until you replace that cartridge.
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No color, black and white only (greyscale also) this is a great printer if you are printing lots of pages w/o color, toner last a ling time as it starts to run our take the cartridge out of printer shake it and put back in printer you will get a lot more use out of the cartridge.
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There is a setting to use black ink only but you do not want to take and leave out color cartridges because it will damage your print head.
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You can select to print in b/w only or color therefore using the color cartridges less frequently. Comes with a set of color cartridges.
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If you are asking will the printer work without a color cartridge in place in the printer to print B&W; the answer is no. The printer has to detect both ink cartridges to work. However, the printer comes with both Black and color ink cartridges and when the color runs out the printer will still print in B&W; as long as you leave the empty cartridge in place (until the black ink runs out).
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I have not tried it without the color cartridges. I'm still working with the original ones that came with the printer. Actually, I'm still using the original black cartridge. I've had this printer since Oct. 2014 and print about (20-30) 42"x30" construction drawings a week. Mostly black. Why not just set the printer properties to black only to save the color ink. If you need the color at some point, you'll have it. I'm assuming you don't own this printer, otherwise you could have found out for yourself.
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I just tried taking out the cartridge to print a photo and the printer doesn't appear to work without a cartridge in the slot. So I don't think it will work without the cartridge.
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Yes. You set your default for grayscale. See your printer manual for exact directions. You can print for approximately 1 month with a missing color cartridge with this setting.
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This printer uses black cartridge 98 and tri-color cartridge 95. They are available separately and in a combo pack. I don't know if there are any generic cartridges available for this device.
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No. Color laser printers need not only color cartridges, but the harware that allows 4 different colors of toner (3 primaries and black) to be metered separately but applied in one pass. Then the waste of throwing the color cartridge away when the most-used color runs out. Same problem with color inkjets. I now print only in black. For color photos, I email files to CVS or Walgreens and in 1 hour I can pick up ACTUAL 4x6 PHOTOS made on $50,000 machines for 19 cents each
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No, this will only print monochrome. The only toner available is black for this model. I wonder if they are referring to a color scan to to your pc.
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It should print without the others. I have had one of the colors run out and just picked the black print option and I was fine.
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No, it won't print if is out of color ink. It already happen to me. Even though I was trying to pring a black copy.