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Printing With Black Ink and Expended Color Cartridges
When a color ink cartridge is expended, you can temporarily continue printing from your computer using
black ink. Replace the expended color cartridge as soon as possible for future printing.
Note: You cannot print with expended color ink cartridges using your product's control panel.
Printing With Expended Color Cartridges - Windows
Printing With Expended Color Cartridges - Mac OS X 10.5/10.6/10.7
Parent topic: Replacing Ink Cartridges
Printing With Expended Color Cartridges - Windows
If you see a message during printing telling you that you can temporarily print in black ink with an
expended color cartridge, you can cancel your print job and select settings to print on plain paper or on
an envelope.
1. Click Stop or Cancel Print to cancel your print job.
Note: If the message screen appears on another computer on a network, you may need to cancel
the print job using the product control panel.
2. Load plain paper or an envelope in your product.
3. Access the print settings in your print application.
4. Click the Main tab.
5. Select Plain Paper/Bright White Paper or Envelope as the paper type setting.
6. Select the Black/Grayscale checkbox.
7. Click OK.
8. Print your document.
EPSON Status Monitor 3 displays a print message.
9. Click Print in Black to print your document.
Parent topic: Printing With Black Ink and Expended Color Cartridges
Printing With Expended Color Cartridges - Mac OS X 10.5/10.6/10.7
If printing stops, you can cancel your print job and select settings to temporarily print with only black ink
on plain paper or on an envelope.
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