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• HP Color Laserjet M277n MFP: How to use the black cartridges only when the color toners are empty

  Hello team HP,

  I recently bought a HP Color Laserjet MFP M277n I printer I print black & white user only and really don't need color prints. How to set the printer options to print only black & white? How can I replace only the black cartridge when the color cartridges are empty? How many prints (approximate), we can take by toner?

  Kind regards

  Christèle

  Hi @Pavumba,

  Welcome to the Forums of HP Support!

  I understand you're wondering how to use black ink only on your HP Color Laserjet M277n MFP printer. I would be glad to help and don't forget to come back to this thread and check "Accept as Solution", if I have successfully helped solve you the problem. If you want to say 'Thank you' to my effort to help, click on the "thumbs up" to give me a Kudos.

  I see that you wonder if you need to replace the color cartridge when it is low. This printer is a printer AIO, therefore, you need to replace the ink cartridge when it becomes too weak to be able to resume printing. However, if you print mostly in black, you can configure a preset black only to print in black and white. This would help reduce the use of the color cartridges.

  NOTE: Composite black - for black and white images and photos, a mix of colors called 'composite black' can be used to achieve the quality significantly improved picture and soft gray tones that can be achieved with only black toner. For users who want to print images using just black toner, many HP printers color customer offer configurable options allowing the client to print using only black toner. For example, by selecting "print in grayscale" in the printer driver Specifies print using black ink only. For more information about the use of the toner cartridges, please see this article: how the Toner is used.

   

• Problem with photosmart c4380 using the black cartridge XL

  Why my photosmart c4380 suddenly not recognize the Black XL cartridge which was working previously?  When I replace it with the previous cartridge (standard size), he seems to recognize and begins the process of allignment.  I have another XL cartridge, but at nearly £40 a go, I am reluctant to that that I'm already using waste AND another a new.  I get the warning message indicates that a cartridge is missing or not detected.  Anyone has any ideas please?

  I found it - I knew that it was there!

  This is a link to a youtube video that tells you how to do it.

  http://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=euzrPLMqDNc

  This sequence should be added at the end of the document that designates any person who responds to this request.  I don't understand why it is so difficult to find this answer? What can do this code? If the answer is not much, then surely its evidence suggesting people try to hp?

• How do I change computer to use only the black cartridge for print on PSC 950 h

  I'm having a problem with my hp psc 950 printer - when I try to copy something it gives me an error to support code on enter to align cartridges-i do this and it is not always copy - how can I change the printer to use only black ink, the color cartridge is probably more good, I just changed black ink and I really don't need the color in my copies - all solutions would be greatly appreciated

  Thank you

  Hi yalulu,

  I understand that you do not use the black cartridge only. I find the features page and the manual for the PSC 950 but did not find that I was looking for. I would suggest trying to use the printer in mode single cartridge, but I am not sure if the printer supports this feature, that's what I was looking for.

  Try out both cartridges, then put in black only. If this does not work, the only other suggestion I have is to replace the color cartridge.

  You can use the below document to troubleshoot color cartridge, select the document that best describes the issue, or take a look at the same time. You can find these useful.

  • Mistakes print cartridge
  • HP 15, 17, 23, 41, 45 and 78, printing unit is not detecting Due cartridge to white, waxy Substance on cartridge Contacts

  I hope this helps to solve the problem you are experiencing.

• HP Photosmart 3310: Using only the black cartridge

  Suffice it for the most part to print text in black, but it seems to exhaust all my color at a speed that is ridiculous and expensive cartridges.  How can I use the black cartridge only?  I use an iMac and iPad (for remote printing)

  Hi @Cambridge29,

  I see that you would like to know how to print with just the black cartridge, save the color for color printing cartridges.
  I would like to help.

  I understand your frustration, I don't really. However, this printer uses same color inks when printing in black only. If run out you of color and kept black printing only, you provoquerez problems with the print head. It is the the user guide for your printer, refer to page 148. Series of all-in-one Photosmart HP 3300

  You can have a setting in the print driver to print in grayscale, which uses fewer colors.

  Application, go to file, print to display the print screen. Here is a screenshot where to access the settings of the print screen driver. Then you can save the setting as a preset.

  

  What operating system do you use? Mac OS X: how to find which Mac OS X Version is on my computer?

  If there is anything else I can help you, let me know.

  Good day!
  Thank you.

• HP Deskjet 690C: HP Deskjet 690C printing with only the black cartridge?

  I have an old deskjet 690C I have a while to use it. So since I need to print only the text is it possible to install only the black cartridge and print as ink backup? Also are there drivers for windows 7 64 bit? And finally this printer works with a parallel to usb on a modern PC adapter?

  Thank you

  According to me, the Deskjet 690C requires both cartridges to be present for printing, although you might have a cartridge empty color installed.  The 'ink backup mode' feature was added later at the 690c Deskjet printer.

  There is a Windows 7 x 64 driver through Windows Update, see the image below.

  Regarding the USB-parallel converters, these can be problematic.  The models in the posts here have been verified to work on Windows 7 x 64 by users in the forum.

  

• OfficeJet 4630: 4630 can print grayscale using only the black cartridge?

  I have purchased a printer 4630 and want to use it like I did my old PSC1350 - using only the black cartridge for all printing. I can't find any setting of grey for the 4630 that will allow for this. With the 1350, the grayscale setting would prevent any color ink cartridges is used, an unnecessary expense for printing in black on white paper.

  If there is no setting on the 4630 grey scale, can I be sure that black ink is used only for printing without color?

  Hello @clif9710!
  
  Thanks for posting on the HP Forums!

  Your printer Officejet 4630 should be able to print in gray scale and the options should be in the window of the printer printing preferences.  I was able to locate a document regarding the changing settings in windows 7 print.

  If you do not get the options to print in gray scale you will need to uninstall the HP software, including the old software, restart the computer and re-install the HP Officejet 4630 software again.

  To uninstall the software HP click here: uninstall the HP software

  To download the HP software, click here: driver and software Officejet 4630

  Another good thing about the Officejet 4630 is that it allows to print mode single cartridge.  cartridges for your printer built in print heads which means that it requires no 2 print cartridges.  If you never use the Tricolor cartridge or you are planning on printing in black, you can remove the Tricolor cartridge, put the cap of the cartridge down and close the lid.  The printer should now say "mode single cartridge printing.  Once the printer is closed upwards, you can send your print job and it will print using only the black cartridge one!

  Thanks again for posting on the forums of HP and post back and let me know how it goes!

• HP Deskjet 1000 printer - just changed the black cartridge for the first time and now it will only print first half of the page. Can anyone help

  HP Deskjet 1000 printer - just changed the black cartridge for the first time and now it will only print first half of the page.  Can anyone help

  Hello Gloria,.

  I ask you to execute methods in the following link and check if the problem is resolved.

  Solve printer problems

  You can also contact the manufacturer to find out how to clean the print head.

  http://h10025.www1.HP.com/ewfrf/wc/siteHome?cc=us&LC=en

  Please get back to us with the State of the question.

• My 3-in-1 uses the color cartridge for copy/printing black a black paper on the glass top...

  My 3-in-1 uses the color cartridge to black for a black document on copy/printing tray, but use black cartridge to print in black from the computer itself.

  In other words:

  (1) if I have a document with a black print in Microsoft word on my hard drive and I want to print this document in black print, while the 3-in-1 works fine. In other words, is the black cartridge can print a document in black to a black document.

  (2) if I take this same document which has just been printed in black and put one on the glass and try to produce a black document thereof using the copier function, the 3-in-1 uses the color cartridge to produce the black document... .more is very slow (the same speed it would be if I were to produce one side of color of color documents.

  Of course, it cannot be the black cartridge.

  Through a long trial and error process, I got lucky and I resolved and the resolution is not what I was expecting and makes no sense to me.

  Use the settings of the printer itself, I just changed the setting from "automatic" to the "plain" paper and the setting in 'text' value 'None '.

• DeskJet 3050 can operate with only the black cartridge?

  I wonder if the printer can operate with only black ink? The manual says that the printer can operate in single-cartridge. My previous color and black ink run out. So I installed a new black cartridge. However, the warning light is still on indicating there is no ink, and he says "door open". Thank you.

  Hi Alice, yes you can use the single cartridge

  Use single-cartridge
  Use single-cartridge use the HP all-in-one with only one cartridge.
  Mode single-cartridge begins when an ink cartridge is removed from the print
  transport of the cartridge. In the mode single-cartridge, the product can only print jobs to the
  computer.
  NOTE: When the HP all-in-one device operating in mode single-cartridge, a message is
  displayed on the screen. If the message appears and two print cartridges are installed
  in the product, check that the piece of tape plastic protection has been removed
  each print cartridge. When the plastic strip covering the contacts of the print cartridge, the product
  cannot detect the cartridge is installed.

  Have you tried to reset the printer to get rid of the open door msg? See the link below for more details

  http://support.HP.com/us-en/document/c00829896

  Ciara

• Black ink cartridge replaced HP Photosmart 5514 and the black cartridge does not print

  HP photosmart 5514

  Windows 7

  no error appears in the window, acts as he is very well, printing just no black ink is on the paper.

  I just replaced the black cartridge with the right product from HP, the installation went well.

  Hello

  Have you checked that the cartridge is properly ventilated? Have you tried running a clean print head?

  If a pipe is clogged, carefully clean with a PIN.

• When I use the windows photo gallery to print a picture of the available option only I have is picture full page

  I have a photosmrt 6510 using a laptop with windows 7 with a Wi - Fi connection. When I try to print a photo using the only available option windows photo gallery I see is full page when I print so it uses the main tray to print instead of the photo tray. Any ideas?

  Make sure that the 6510 Source document is set to Photo Tray. (printing in 6510 preferences)

• Vista OfficeJet 6110 do not print black cartridge only (I always get color)

  I can't get my Vista with OfficeJet 6110 to print black cartridge only, that is, I always get COLORS in my impression.

  NOTE: I have the BLUE text in my .odt file and I want to print with just the black cartridge but alaways get BLUE to the exit...

  I hope Bob Headrick reads this...

  What printer driver settings that you use?    I can't install the Officejet 6110 driver, but I tried the following with the Deskjet 6500 driver: in the tab 'Printing shortcuts' select ' Fast/economical printing' in the 'what do you do?"tab.  IN the "Choice of colors" drop-down list select low "on Black Print Cartrdige Only", then apply. For good measure, go to the Advanced tab and enable "text just like Print black" in the tab "Printer features", then apply, OK.

  A similar procedure should give good results with the Officejet 6110.  If this isn't the case, you could install the Deskjet 6500 driver by going to add printer, select local printer, select the USB port the 6110 is on and then select the driver HP Deskjet 6500 Series.  You might have the DEskjet 6500 and Officejet 6110 drivers installed at the same time, they should not come into conflict.

  Kind regards

  Bob Headrick, MS MVP printing/imaging

• printer will work if the color cartridges are ink

  I have an Officejet 4620. My computer says all the ink cartridges are out of ink. I can always print in black. I need to replace the color cartridges?   The printer uses individual cartridges for red, blue and yellow cartridges. Color will be printed in blue and yellow only, so I guess there is little color left.

  I usually do not need color copies and I have another Copier.

  Hello @Connsu,

  Welcome to the Forums of HP Support!

  I would like to help you today with your color cartridge application today. Because your printer uses four cartridges: HP 564 black, HP 564 Cyan, Magenta 564 HP and HP 564 yellow, if one or all of these color cartridges are exhausted replace them to continue using the printer. Your HP Officejets ink system is designed to print when have all ink cartridges. A little ink in each cartridge is used for maintenance and maintenance tasks completed by your printer to keep the print head system in your printer in good working order.

  The print head is the part that the cartridges will fit. It controls the "reading" of the cartridges and put the ink on the page. If the printhead is not able to perform regular maintenance, due to depleted cartridges, there is a chance that the mechanism of the print head gets dirty. If the printhead is damaged in any way a whole unit replacement may be necessary. For more information about using ink please click here.

  In the future, if you mainly print in black from the computer, you can set your printer driver to use black ink only. Normally when you print from your computer files will be sent to your printer as "images". If your printer "thinks" it prints an image file that ink color will be used to enrich the black ink. If you don't want that to happen, you can enable grayscale printing option.

  • How to set grayscale in Windows:
  1. Click on the Start menu
  2. Click on devices and printers
  3. Right click on your printer and select Printing Options
  4. Click on features or Advanced
  5. Select the Grayscale dropdown and replace Black Ink only
  6. Click apply and OK

  If you ever want to print in color that you just open the document to print, click Properties in the print dialog box and change black ink only on OFF. This setting only will change to print one job and will return to black ink only for future jobs.

  • How to set levels of gray on Mac:
  1. In the software application, click print
  2. Select your printer
  3. Click Paper Type/quality menu
  4. Click the triangle next to Color Options
  5. In the color menu, select Grayscale or black & white
  6. Select the printing black only ink cartridge
  7. Click print

  Please let me know if the information provided solves your color cartridge problems. I look forward to hear from you!

• OfficeJet Pro 8500 can operate with only the black cartridge?

  I have never use my color printer and do not want to buy color cartridges. Can I program the 8500 to print with just the black cartridge. If so, how? Currently, the printer does not work if all the cartridges are not loaded and with ink. Please notify.

  Hello

  Please try: put a piece of tape on the oblong hole in the ink cartridge of, it will continue to print black only. And once again, it is only a few pages.

  Kind regards.