There should be a printer setting to allow you to print in black only.
You can make that your default setting.  Sometimes when you print black
without setting that, it actually will use colors along with black.

Diane Kroeckel



On Mon, 3 May 2004 16:04:08 -0700 Carol <[log in to unmask]> writes:
> I have a Canon S520 printer.  It ran out of black ink a short while
> ago, so
> I installed a new cartridge.  It has been warning me that the three
> colors
> are running low, but I have been ignoring it, because I never print
> in color
> and don't want to have to buy colored ink cartridges.  I used to do
> this all
> the time - let the colors run out and print with only black.  It
> worked just
> fine on every printer I've ever used, until now.  Now I've run out
> of
> Magenta and it won't print at all.  Why?!  In actuality, it does NOT
> take
> colors to print in black. Does anyone know of anything I can do to
> keep this
> printer going on just black ink?  I wasn't sure if this was a
> software or
> hardware situation, but thought there might be a software tweek I
> could do,
> so started here.
> Carol Hanson
>
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