Does this print B&W if there is not a color cartridge?
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I would say no. If I go to change a toner, it knows if one is missing, and it wont print until one is put in it, and the chip on the toner tells the printer its status.on the other hand, you could simply turn off the color printing part thru its printer driver, and print just B&W;, and choose color just when you want it.I am happy with mine. we have HP and Konica Minolta's at work, and this printer prints, and looks every bit as quality as the big business models do. In fact, sometimes I print from home and take it in, and no one can tell, so I don't tell....spreadsheets, charts, graphs, digital pictures, screen shots, power point, Visio, its all A+! I would say no. If I go to change a toner, it knows if one is missing, and it wont print until one is put in it, and the chip on the toner tells the printer its status.on the other hand, you could simply turn off the color printing part thru its printer driver, and print just B&W;, and choose color just when you want it.I am happy with mine. we have HP and Konica Minolta's at work, and this printer prints, and looks every bit as quality as the big business models do. In fact, sometimes I print from home and take it in, and no one can tell, so I don't tell....spreadsheets,... » Read More I would say no. If I go to change a toner, it knows if one is missing, and it wont print until one is put in it, and the chip on the toner tells the printer its status.on the other hand, you could simply turn off the color printing part thru its printer driver, and print just B&W;, and choose color just when you want it.I am happy with mine. we have HP and Konica Minolta's at work, and this printer prints, and looks every bit as quality as the big business models do. In fact, sometimes I print from home and take it in, and no one can tell, so I don't tell....spreadsheets, charts, graphs, digital pictures, screen shots, power point, Visio, its all A+! « Show Less
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I have never tried but I will guess "no". Once a cartridge is too low it will not print so I am guessing it will not print if a cartridge is missing or empty, regardless of whether or not it actually *needs* that cartridge.
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It prints in both color and black and white. Our black cartridge would not work for some reason so it would use color instead. Look into a canon pixma. They are cheaper and work much better in my experience. I got one for myself and one for my mom and we both love them.
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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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yes. in my experience with this printer you have to replace colors before you can print again. i have tried going to black and white only and greyscale like the support pages ask you to do but i have had no luck.
546248
yes, that is what it says and confirmed by their tech folks when I was on the phone with them.. annoying not to be able to print B&W when a color runs out..
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No and Yes. NO YOU CANNOT print if it is the Black cartridge. The printer prevents all printing if the Black cartridge signals empty. In truth, there is plenty of ink left to use. It's a serious problem and was the subject of a lawsuit which Epson settled in the USA. The PRINTER WILL ALLOW you to continue if one of the COLOR cartridges is out.
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If you consider greyscale a color then yes but this printer is only a black and white label printer.
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I have run out of one of the color cartridges and it still printed for me, so I would say yes, but installing a new color cartridge is the best bet.
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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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this printer does not use color cartridges to print B&W-- at least not by default. If you are low or out of B&W ink the printer will ask you if you want to use the color cartridges to create black. This was a major selling point for me because I used to hate how HP printers required color to print B&W.
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Yes it does however when you put it in your computer tells you that the cartridge is not genuine. You may get a few prints out of them and then they are empty
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Yes. There is one black and one color cartridge that comes with the printer.
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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.
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Yes. Just turn the black and white on and turn color button off. I love this printer
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Yes the printer requires having ALL ink cartridges installed (and none empty) to print, if you run out of a color you cannot print (even in black) until the color cartridge is replaced..
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No. You need four different toner cartridges and software that separates the print image by color (Black, magenta, cyan and yellow) to print color. Color laser printers are a whole lot larger than black/white laser printers for this reason.
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You can set your printer to just print in black and white only, this possibly would cut down on using the color inks.