If you're out of black ink, can you use this to print documents in black and white or do you also have to buy the black ink??
1379468
Not sure I totally understand the question but, yes, you can use this cartridge or; if you have a cartridge already, it is refillable (using the proper black ink/toner). Hope that helps.
1379469
If you are out of black ink the printer won't be able to print in black and white. The color cartridge only has colored ink. It is very likely that the two cartridges will not run out at the same time. In the case you describe I believe you would have to buy a new black cartridge to resume printing in black and white.
1379470
I have never done this but here are the settings to try it: Click on the printer icon>settings>utility>openprinterutility>inkcartridgesettings>coloronly and then click apply. Then you should be able to see what you get when you use color only.
1379471
yes, you can do this but of course the print quality will not be as good and some of it may be difficult to read. It would be better to have the black cartridge rather than the color one because then you could print everything. The color would appear as "grayscale."
1379472
I think it depends on your printer. Mine won't work unless both cartridges are available. Try Canon'swebsite and see if they can help you.
1611260
Cheryl,Not sure, just bought the printer. I print in Black and White and use color only when I need to. They offer an "XL" ink cartridge for each color which offers additional ink over the standard cartridge thus lasts longer, but at a higher price.
880358
Printing in black only will not use any of the other toner colors, so you can print in black and white just as with any other printer. There are also options for "Mono" printing, so that you can print any document (even color documents) in only black, if you wish.
2065374
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.
1220366
If the black is not empty, it will print in black even with one of the colors is empty. It seems all ink is expensive. Sell the printer cheap, and make your money off the ink.
2101549
No. In fact, if only one of the other cartridges runs out of ink, you are stuck. It will not print even a test page in black
17958
The inability to print something when any of the color cartridges is empty may be a difficulty with many (most? all?) color printers these days. I know in the past when one color ran out, I would still be able print something that just used black ink, but that's not possible with my current color ink jet printer (a Brother all-in-one). I do very little color printing, and I find it cheaper though space-consuming to own two printers, the color inkjet and a laser printer for documents that only require black ink.
2006849
Yes, it has support for black and white printing, and prints documents with plain text extremely fast. It uses very little ink for this kind of work. This is pretty similar to other printers that have dedicated blank ink tanks.
1505040
You can set your printer to just print in black and white only, this possibly would cut down on using the color inks.
2063044
Actually, if you don't tell your printer to print in black only (for printing black), it will use a combination of color ink to make the black. There should be a setting in your printers preferences wherein you can tell it to print in black only when you want to truly print in black.
1715246
I cannot use my printer without the color ink is possible to make black copies but to print something you need all colors
1967795
I think this is a ploy to force customers to buy color cartridges even if you are only printing in black & white. There's no solution that I know of except to buy store brand ink cartridges. I still don't understand why you need cartridges in the printer in order to scan and fax - that still has me stumped, but I think it's a design flaw.
1692864
I have not had any need to print doublesided documents, but I will try to check it out tomorrow and let you know. I do have a Mac, so my printer menus are considerably different than the ones that pop up on a PC. I have never even seen a "black ink only" option, despite searching. I will try to find it.Thanks for a well thought out and relevant response.
2101550
I recently discovered that I can't print with this printer in black and white even though I'm out of the yellow ink. I find this needlessly annoying. What has yellow got to do with black? Aaarrgh.
2114001
I don't think you can get it to print unless both cartridges have ink. I keep extra black & color cartridges on hand that way, I can still print. I print more invoices than anything else so I go through more black ink. Sorry I can't give you more help.
885965
Many printers today come with both a color and black ink cartridge. A printer will only print black ink if there is the only cartridge is the black ink cartridge, the color cartridge has run out of ink, or you select the print option to print either in black and white or grayscale.
489559
As long as you have black ink, you can make black and white copies. The color cartridge is only needed for color copies. Also, if you don't have a color cartridge and try to print a color copy, it will just come out black and white.