Do both ink cartridges have to have ink if you are only printing black and white?
1420823
No. If you run out of Black ink, the unit will ask you if you want it to mix the color ink to make black.
241886
I only use the converter. The company should be able to tell you which ink cartridge to use.
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.
2113601
you may need two inks, one black one color ink into printer or ink is empty.
96216
The Lexmark software has an option to use Black ink only. If you don't select this, even when you print an all-black document the printer uses a little bit of the color ink (as I understand it). So when I am printing a b&w; document I make sure I select "Use Black ink only" and it seems to stretch out the life of my color cartridges...IMHO
1226576
Means that the printer will only use black to print. So it is only a black and white printer.
1315147
No. This printer will ensure you must purchase ink cartridges even if you intend to print greyscale only and even though there is NO COLOR INK needed to print greyscale!
1302344
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.;
394114
No, I think you have to scan it to your desktop or whatever and send as an attachment... It prints only in black/white, but is so fast and the cartridges last forever.
1711758
Color and black and white are two separate cartridges. If you're not printing in color, then the color won't empty.
999432
As far as I know, you need both cartridges for the printer to operate properly.
999433
If you are asking will the printer work without a color cartridge in place in the printer to print B&W; the answer is no. The printer has to detect both ink cartridges to work. However, the printer comes with both Black and color ink cartridges and when the color runs out the printer will still print in B&W; as long as you leave the empty cartridge in place (until the black ink runs out).
1715245
There is a setting to use black ink only but you do not want to take and leave out color cartridges because it will damage your print head.
2088805
Comes with two ink cartridges (Black/white and color). USB cable is not included. You must buy it separately.
2114000
I recently encountered the same problem. The printer will not let you continue unless both Cartridges have ink. You most replace the empty cartridge in order for get your printer to work.
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.
1174053
you need to have some ink in all the cartridges- just about all printers nowadays work that way. any empty cartridge will stop the printer(not sure if it can be empty but in the slot, but i know pulling the empty cartridge will keep the printer from printing.if you only use black the other cartridges will last a LONG time with this printer.