the printer is a Epson Stylus Pic R240. i have some school work that i need printing off for tomorrow morning. its an all black and white written document. but when i clicked print, it was complaining that the magenta, cyan and yellow cartridges were empty. But, i only have a magenta, yellow and black cartridge spare, no cyan. so i have replaced the magenta and yellow cartridges, but its still complaining that in wants a new cyan cartridge. how can i get it to print in black and white with 1 cartridge empty?
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I have the same problem with my brother printer, you can't print anything without all cartridges being in, even if it is only in black and white in the document.
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When you open word, click
File -> Print -> Printer options
In there, you should have an option “print in grayscale” or print in “black and white”, depending on your printer. This will ONLY use your black cartridge and not the coloured ones.
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Go to File and Print….then there should be a button called Properties. Click that, then check the box to “print color images in black and white”. Then hit “OK”. That should work.
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If all your doc. requires is black ink, think about putting in any random cartridge in that slot, put an X on it with a marker.
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try clicking
File >>print>>properties>>paper quality>>black and white
should then use black ink cartridge
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You can't. Ink is a lubricant for the print heads. Some color ink is used even if you only print in black or vice versa. If you printed with a color missing, you could destroy that print head from the friction of running without ink to lubricate it. That's why most printers won't grant you to print with a color missing even if you aren't using it.
If you allow a color to go empty, the residual ink in the head could clog and become permanently blocked. You would never be able to print that color again. So always replace ink cartridges as soon as they’re empty.
Leaving your printer on takes very tiny power. Each so often the printer sends a signal to cycle the ink in the heads so it doesn't clog. If you turn your printer off, the next time you turn it on it will do a cleaning which wastes a lot of ink. The excess ink is soaked up by the waste pad beneath the printer. When the waste pad is full, the printer stops working. Unless you want to spend more than the cost of the printer or waste a lot of time on a messy cleanup you will end up throwing the printer out. So shutting it off actually shortens its life.
If you leave the printer off for extended periods of time, the ink in the heads will clog and you will have to throw the printer away. Someone I know with a Canon (though this can happen with any inkjet) had to have the heads replaced twice within the first few months before the Canon tech told her to halt turning it off. Since then it has worked perfectly for over a year.