D'ya Need to Print Black but your Black is empty? (my afternoon accomplishment)

[bubble.tea]

So my Staples EL-FREEBIO AIO is long since empty on Black...but the Colour seems to be going strong. Well today I fiddled, and pleasantly discovered that if you force Colour Printing (even for black documents), and manually adjust your settings as so...



You get Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrack Printing!!!

Woo-hoo!!!! The last few waybills I printed out where light blueberry and something else. The Courier guy wasn't happy since his scanner wouldn't pick it up . Had to manually enter code.

Only downside to this is I was looking forward to cracking open a new El-Freebio AIO but now I won't need to for quite awhile . We hardly ever do any printing so this'll last (partly why I never discovered this trick till now).

BTW., I'm sure you GEEKS knew about this long ago! I just stumbled upon it so I was pleased with myself and decided to share . If I help one person I'm happy .

Now off to Harvey's to get me some Angus!

[willy]

Yup ... There are some ultra-low-end models of inkjet printers actually do not equip with true black carts ... They just have color ... The 'black' is more like a very dark brown ...

[IoannI]

What I found sometimes works is if you reinstall your empty Cartridge and it wokrs