Do all empty ink cartridges have to be replaced to make printer print? -

I relaced the black ink cartridge however the other three colors are empty and the printer will not print--do I have to replace all cartridges for the printer to work?

Some printer manufacturers are *****. They add chips to their cartridges to monitor ink levels and, once the chips register as empty, they will not function again, even if you refill them. Some of them even report to the printer driver that they re empty and will not allow you to print without replacing them, regardless of whether they re needed. It s part of the whole printer ink price gouging process. Now, I can t tell if your printer is like that without knowing what it is. But a good trick with some printers is to take the empty print cartridges out for a couple of minutes and then re-insert them. Your printer driver should detect that this has happened (provided you remove them in the way that they re supposed to be) and ask you if you ve inserted new cartridges. Tell it that you have. If it asks about the levels of ink in them, give the most positive response - eg if it asks quot;Have you printed with these cartridges before?quot;, say yes. Also, within your printer driver settings, there ought to be an option to force it to print in black and white - select this option. Sometimes, when printing even plain black text, it will attempt to print some colours into the mix to give a better looking black. My printer uses a black cartridge and a colour one. The colour one has three colours in it, but if one runs out, it will say it s empty and expect me to throw away a cartridge with two colours still partially full, just because it thinks one is empty. Printer manufacturers are bad people. They lose money on most printers that they sell, because they re going to try to rip you off on the ink. Anyway, give the above steps a try. If they don t work for you, then I d suggest posting a new question including the details of what your printer is. If you only make an ammendment to this question to add detail, most people will not see it.

yeah

no.one can be completely empty,as long as the other has some.I have a printer with only color ink,so it can t print black,but it still works. Hope this helped :)

not necessarily, you needa change your preferences when you print. Instead of colour change your print settings to monochrome or grayscale.

You ll need to set your print options to quot;gray scalequot; (or something like that). To fool the printer software, remove and replace the color ones.

Ink is a lubricant for the print heads. Some color ink is used even if you only print in black or vice versa. If you printed with a color missing, you could destroy that print head from the friction of running without ink to lubricate it. That s why most printers won t allow you to print with a color missing even if you aren t using it. If you allow a color to go empty, the residual ink in the head could clog and become permanently blocked. You would never be able to print that color again. So always replace ink cartridges as soon as they are empty. Leaving your printer on takes very little power. Every so often the printer sends a signal to cycle the ink in the heads so it doesn t clog. If you turn your printer off, the next time you turn it on it will do a cleaning which wastes a lot of ink. The excess ink is soaked up by the waste pad beneath the printer. When the waste pad is full, the printer stops working. Unless you want to spend more than the cost of the printer or waste a lot of time on a messy cleanup you will end up throwing the printer out. So shutting it off actually shortens its life. If you leave the printer off for extended periods of time, the ink in the heads will clog and you will have to throw the printer away. Someone I know with a Canon (though this can happen with any inkjet) had to have the heads replaced twice within the first few months before the Canon tech told her to stop turning it off. Since then it has worked perfectly for over a year.

If it s like my printer, any cartridge that is empty has to be replaced to be able to print. Partially full cartridges are ok.

you could change the preferences to just black then you be ok but if you want colour you have to replace

Usually, yes.