How do I print black and white on my. 4500
1562437
Sorry, Alan, but, I quit using my HP printer and purchased a Canon. Too many issues with the HP. Plus, it goes through ink like water. I won't be buying an HP product anytime soon, if ever.
1562438
just remove the color cartridge and answer ok ok ok, ignore warning signs of color out and print on.
1562439
Go into Devices and Printers, right click on your printer and then click on "Printing Preferences". There is a tab entitled "Features" and under Color Options click the "print in greyscale". You should also be given an option to choose color, B&W;, or greyscale when you print and the prompt comes up asking how many copies you want. If you go into properties, you should be able to select the color or B&W; choice then as well.
1562440
You have to go to the printer settings and select print in grayscale or black only. There's a setting to do that in the printer settings under preferences. If you need additional help, visit Hp.com support and type in the printer model and find the manual or you can call and ask HP also.
1088323
I take it to kinkos and it prints in black or white or color. Depends what kind of printer you have
1264919
There is a black and white printing function, but I have not measured the difference between using that function and not using that function. What I can say is I do very little color printing and I replace the black cartridge 2-4 times before replacing any of the color cartridges.
1283549
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
1973070
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.
1995258
Short answer: No, not automatically. However, there are clumsy ways to work around it. I leave the empty ($$$) color cartridge in; ignore the constant bitching; and try to print everything B&W, using Print Preferences for my System, WordProcessor or Document. I've had a long battle with this F4480 printer, after having a wonderful relationship with a similar HP 1200 series printer. The 1200 had cartridges that I refilled dozens of times -- it was easy, and low color simply didn't seem to be a problem. Yes, my F4480 constantly complains about the ($60) cartridges being out of ink. Yet I have found almost no way to simply tell it to print everything Black & White. Only deep in my (Mac OS or WORD or Document) Print Set-up options can I set "Draft" and "Print B&W" etc. (by System, Application or by Document). Generally I just ignore the constant complaining about low color ink -- however, printing an occasional document with any color text will not print that text -- often the most critical data (Date and Time, etc). Note: there are several levels of "Clean Print Heads" - all of which waste increasing amounts of precious ink. You can't win with this printer. So yes it's a problem, and a damned nuisance. A salesman suggested trying to install the latest HP Print Drivers (Fooey, I think they're designed to sell ink). Look through all of your Page Setup or Printer Preference Settings (both System-wide, Word-processor, and Document, Etc). Search for any "Black" Settings, either permanent or per document; and WORST CASE: buy a color cartridge now and then, but NEVER use it. &gt;&gt; And tell HP how unhappy you are.
999430
I can fine no information which says that both cartridges have to be installed to print black and white prints. However, I am thinking that it is probably a good idea to have both cartridges installed. It may well be as Donald Graham suggested, though I cannot verify that.
633658
Having two types of gray ink this printer is excellent for B&W; prints. I would suggest using Topaz plug-in (for Lightroom and or Aperture) to adjust your pic before printing.
1427966
You need to change the settings through your computer. When the print menu pops up, go to properties. Choose "grayscale." Then print.
498336
YOU CANNOT PRINT in black and white, you can't clean the heads to see if it actually works WITHOUT ALL COLOR WORKING. Don't buy - it's sucks.
2178105
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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When you decide to print, Use the &lt;Control key&gt;, hold it down and press P at the same time. This opens the printer dialog box. Open the printer properties or preferences, click the advanced tab. then place the dot into the greyscale. This allows only "Black Printing".
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You can set to print black and white only and it does only use black and white toner, but you have to have color cartridges in the machine for it to work. I don't know if it will keep printing black if out of color toner--I seem to remember that most HP don't allow this. Most laser printers when they do cleaning cycles will use up a bit of color ink no matter what. It's not terribly much, but it can eat away at cartridges over time. They do cleaning cycles when turned on and when waking up. The black toner is also more spendy compared to a black and white only only. We have this for color stuff and a HP N521DN which we use for black and white. The black and white only is twice as fast and the black ink is about 1/3 more economical.
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When you decide to print, Use the <Control key>, hold it down and press P at the same time. This opens the printer dialog box. Open the printer properties or preferences, click the advanced tab. then place the dot into the greyscale. This allows only "Black Printing".
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Up to date drivers is a good idea. Also, when you click on "print", a square menu comes up. Make sure the right printer is identified and then click on "Properties". then on the tab titled "Main" if you are not already there. You should see a line of pictures suggesting draft, text, etc. Click on "Text and Image". That should work. I had to specify with each printing for a while, then it got the hint that I wanted text and image.Good Luck!
1641806
Does anyone know how many Black and White pages you can print per B&W; cartridge with the MP830?
955903
Canon PG 50 &51. I set mine to monochrome and just print in black with a generic PG50 cartridge that costs about 20% of what Canon cartridges cost. I've been doing it for ten years without a single problem.