sorry guy, didn't know hp had sep color cartriges.Epson is the cheap ink
cartridge printer. It has separate color cartridges too only they are very
reasonable. I think hp knows alot of sales are lost to epson because of this
and tricked its customers!! Corporate is nasty!

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 10:45 PM, Dean Kukral <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> One of the reasons that I purchased my HP 9100 printer at $400 was that it
> used separate ink cartridges, so I thought that I might
> save money over the long run.  It has five colors plus black, six separate
> cartridges in all.
>
> As it turns out, I use it very little for color printing on a day-to-day
> basis (only after a vacation), so that my only use is to
> copy the newspaper crossword puzzle.  I always press "black and white" to
> make the copy, not "color."  However, over a reasonably
> short time, the color ink cartridges go empty!  They are quite expensive to
> replace for the measly amount of ink that is in them and
> considering that I do not copy in color.  Sure, I can afford it, but it is
> an irritation.
>
> Does anyone know why this printer uses color ink even though I tell it to
> make a black and white copy?  Is there a way to fix this?
>
> TIA,
>
> Dean Kukral
>
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