Digital BW, The Print

Paul D. DeRocco wrote:
>> I wonder whether there's any inkjet (not an Epson, I bet) that
would
>> be willing to print in black-only ink with _empty_ color cartridges
>> -- just empty, dummy cartridges to fill the space -- or whether
>> every injet printer will refuse to go on if its color cartridges
>> are empty.
>
> The latter. But if you did so much black-only printing that the
> amount of
> color ink wasted in cleaning cycles became an economic issue, you
> could buy
> a chip resetter and reset the empty color cartridge's ink counter.
> You might
> eventually wind up with a dried out color printhead, but if the
> printer was
> reserved for B&W, that wouldn't be an issue.

For an Epson printer dedicated to black-only printing, you could use
a colour cartridge loaded with cleaning fluid. The printer would suck
the cleaning fluid through the heads and dump it in the waste pad, but
it would not print any cleaning fluid onto the paper. You'd save a
little
money (compared with using a normal colour cart) and keep all the
printer heads clear.

I don't think I would bother...

Peter Marquis-Kyle
www.marquis-kyle.com.au