I am looking for a small printer for black and white. Can this printer be set to print only black and not color?
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Yes--when the print details come up just click "GREYSCALE" P.S. On sale at Walgreens this week only for $19.99 Cheaper than buying ink! I like this little printer--although it does not have a paper tray for the output page--it works better than the $80 dollar printers@!
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Absolutely. You can go to settings and print in either color or black and white for both single and duplex printing.
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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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http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/BSC/public/us/us/en/faq/faq/000000/002400/000061/faq002461_005.html?reg=us&c;=us〈=en∏=mfcj870dw_us_eu_as&Cat;=103It looks like the printer will print in black and white if the printer is set to print in grayscale or black and white only mode. Otherwise it will try to mix the colors to produce black. I am not sure how long it will allow this before requiring you to replace the color cartridges though, because it still requires enough color ink to perform the print head cleaning operations.
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Yes. The printer comes with black + colors. If you use only black, it will be happy. If you use up the colors, leave the empty color cartridges in place. It will nag you to replace the empty ones but you can ignore that. There are super-size black cartridges available and I suggest you use them for lower cost. I have 2 of these printers used mostly for scanning and printing 11x17 engineering drawings and have no complaints after about 2 years.
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Yes, just select black & white when the print selection pops up. Always buy the XXL Ink in B&W; and the color pack. Much cheaper and prints a lot more pages. If U need more on the ink just ask another ?Merry Christmas!Rich
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I do not know if it has a black and white setting if I want black and white I just print in Black and White.
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The black and color are separate cartridges so if the color goes empty, you can still print in black, one of the options in the print menu is to print in grayscale if no color ink or if you just want to conserve the color ink.
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I take it to kinkos and it prints in black or white or color. Depends what kind of printer you have
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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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Normally you don't set the *printer* to print black&white; only. Instead you select the black&white; printing option on the print menu of whatever application (IE browser, Chrome browser, Acrobat (pdf) Reader, etc.) you are using. You have to do this each time you print a document.
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You can change the settings from your computer to only print on one side and also to print in black and white only.
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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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after reading all of this im still confused....will THIS PRINTER IN PARTICULAR print black & white even if the color ink isn't in the printer?
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Howdy doody! Yes you can print only in black ink if you wish. You have the option to switch. Hope this helps!!!
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Yes, you can use this to print plain text in black and white, but it is slow and uses expensive pigment inks. I use both a B&W; laser and an inexpensive dye-based ink jet on my home network for general printing. The Pro-10 is really a photo printer for pros and serious amateurs. I use it exclusively for photos.
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I don't know if it will print in black and white if the color cartridge is empty as I just got the printer and haven't emptied the cartridges yet. I assume it will continue to do black and white if you leave the empty cartridges in.