I want to use black cartrige only for printing

clean cartridge slot and cartridge with alcohol q-tip swap.

Did you use a brandname ink cartridge - or is it a knock-off brand? If it is a brand name - then the cartridge is most likely defective. If it is a knock-off brand - some printers do not recognize the electronic in the cartridge and therefore don't see it as one being installed.

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Dell 922 AIO Black Ink Cartridge Missing Message

Try to clean cartrige and cartrige carrier conector place with soft erager.Then put cartrige into cartrige holder then gentaly push top of the cartrige sothat a `cat' sound happend, then turn on printer.
I think you will relive
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It's your printer head problem. Your printer head is now block. To remove the problem try to follow the proces:
1. Take some amonia solution ( amonia30%+ water70%) in a plastic seringe.
2.remove cartriges from cartrige holder.
3. Then set the seringe nipple in one stick (that is into cartrige holle all time while cartrige is push).
4. Then push the solution in to the black plastic stick.
Use these proces 5/6 time one after another to a black stick.
I think you may relive from your problem.
Thank you

Use lint free cloth and clean the contacts on cartrige and contacts on printer were the cartrige gos in. Be very gentle and very careful do not damage the contacts. Reinstall the cartrige an try again to get it to print. Do not touch the inkjet on the bottom of the ink cartrige it may distroy the print head chip on the ink cartrige and make it useless.

as long as the color print cartridges remain in the printer you should be able to print in only black and white.
If the error message does not come up and prompt you to chose this option, you should be able to tell the printer to print in black .

(1) go file print or print
(2) a gray box will pop up click on properties
(3) Click color
(4)click gray scale

This should do it for you!
(5) select black print cartridge only

I have just resolved the "Install black cartrige" issue on my printer I am not sure if it will solve everyone's problem but these are the steps I took to solve the problem.

1. removed the black cartrige.
2. removed all the paper from the tray and noticed that one of the pages was a little jammed.
3. I then turned the printer on and off again and still encountered the "Install black cartrige" error message.
4. I then put the black cartrige back in the the printer and restarted the printer.
5. When the printer restarted it started to initialize correctly and I perform some test prints to confirm that it was back up and running.

Yes. The printer won't operate without both cartridges installed, even if one is empty.

Take a dish- put damp tissue in it- if it can a one of the alchohol based cleaning tissue fine.
Stand the cart init for 10 minutes.
with a similar tissue give the contact sheet a wipe. and if it is flush to the bodty see if it has some give.
Reinstall and try

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