Color LaserJet 2605dn printing black and white only

I have a Color Laserjet 2605dn, and all of the color ink cartridges have run dry. However the black cartridge has more than 2,000 pages of ink in the printer and it won't let me prink only black and white. It seems that the color cartridges must also have ink in them so that the printer to print. Does anyone know a work around so that I can print with the black cartridge and not buy color cartridges?

Hello

Thanks for the post.  I have attached a link below that can help.  Good luck!

http://h20000.www2.HP.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/document.jsp?lang=en & CC = US & TaskID = 110 & prodSeriesId = 1140727 & prodTypeId = 18972 & prodSeriesId = 1140727 & objectid = c00660239

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