Won't print in color, sometimes black and white with a little blue, have put in new color ink cartrage

Try cleaning the print head with something like isopropyl. I had a canon that did the same because the machine was fairly old, had a little use that lead to ink drying on the head and blocking the pransmission of the inks to paper. That may be the issue hopefully. Sometimes compatible cartridges cause problems because they are not correctly chipped.

You can only use the black ink cartridge without the color ink. But no need to replace them in your printer.
When you print just choose black and white for the printed text must be black not colored. But if you still received such notification...just try to replace the color ink cartridge to continue printing
Note: As per my experience. printer with exclusive black ink alone will damage the printer easily due to unbalance printing of ink

they have a excellent customer service dept call if they cant tell you what to do they often will replace it sometimes for free its worth a try.

take yourink cartrige to staples and get in black an white only and then purshase it and put it whre the color ink cartrage was........................how the the hell do you spell cartrage?

When you put in a "new" cartrage the printer sens an electrical charge to the cartrage to set it up properly. So I would treat this as a new cartrage, rather than a refilled one. Go to the printer menu and re install the ink cartrage in question, it should recognise it and start the function as a new one, good luck

you may need to reinstall the cartridge once again and test

First - read the manual as regards printing. I notice that you can print in Black and White but I cannot find anything to say that you only need the Black ink to do this (therefore I think that I am right in saying that you need the colour cartridges).

Question - Has it worked with only the black ink before now?

As a final solution - Contact Brother direct and check out their FAQ's and/or send them an email asking if you can run the printer with Black ink only installed (I suspect the answer will be no).

If the answer to the above questions comes back as "Yes you can use Black only" (they may tell you how to set this up in which case ignore my next comments), then please supply some more information as regards what happened immediately before it stopped printing. This will help to drill down to the problem.

You are out of black and white ink.
Graphics are printed with the color cartrage
text is printed with the black and white.

Hi

HP uses a system for black that prints a base ie: Cyan / *blue then overprints it with black...

Sounds like you are either out of black or you have an ink clog?

If so... you need to use a print head cleaner like Magic Inkjet Flush you can get a kit on Ebay.

Good Luck!

Make it sure that ink cartridge are genuine not generic , sometime the generic ink the printer connot identify because the small chip at the back of cartridge are defferent from genuine ink.Sometime the generic can print but not true color, genuine has a perfect color and you will satified save time , money ,and effort.