My Epson C62 Printer will not let me print because it is out of color ink. Can I still print in black even if the other cartridges are empty?
No. Epson printers are set up that the printhead is inside the printer and not attached to each individual cartridge. For this reason Epson put in a 'stop' on the printer if one colour runs out. The reason being that if you try to print and nothing is coming out then the piezo-electric system (your printhead) is burning out. The ink cools the printhead. If you really don't care, and i mean really have no intention of every using color again, that if you goofed it up it wouldn't matter, you can pick your self up a chip resetter $10-15 it will fool the printer into thinking the colour carts are full and will allow you to print just with the black full. Make sure you go black and white only when you print, just because the colour is b/w doesn't mean it's drawing from the black cart to print, some printers use what's called process black, using 3 colours to make black. You have to click black and white only!



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