Lexmark X-1290, will not Print ! I did rplaced the Color Ink #27 and the Black-Ink #17 and will not PRINT. Ihad this Printer for 4-years and did'nt have any problem till NOW. The scanner works but the copy do not.

If your color ink is already empty or not substantial for printing, then you must replace it with a new cartridge. The Lexmark printer will continue to print when there's substantial ink in the cartridges.
If you prefer to print in black and white as your default print setting, please follow the steps below: (make sure your black and color cartridges ink levels are good)

For Windows OS:

1. Go to Control Panel.

2. Open Printers and Faxes.

3. Right-click on Lexmark 3600-4600 Series print object and click on Properties.

4. In the Lexmark 3600-4600 Series Properties window, go to Advanced tab. Click on Printing Defaults.

5. In the Lexmark 3600-4600 Series Printing Preferences window, under Ink Use, select Print using black ink only. Click OK.

6. Click OK button in the Lexmark 3600-4600 Series Properties window to save the changes.

Your printer will print in black and white draft mode the next time you send a print job to the printer.

For Mac OS:

1. With the file (you wish to print) open, go to Print. A window will pop up.

2. Select the Lexmark printer.

3. Expand the arrow pointing down beside printer name if you're not able to see other options for printing. Look for Quality and Media.

4. Under Paper tab, select Print in Black and White.

5. Save this as your default print setting. Click Presets option and choose Save as. You can personalize the name for this default print setting (e.g. Black and White Draft or My Setting).

Select this Preset name every time you print your files/documents.

ink drys out quickly and yes years means its dry.
no you can't just buy a black and make it work. lexmark requires working color and black if the printer prints for both. kinda an unfortunate thing. honestly i suggest getting a kodak printer. tons better than a lexmark and the print is the cost of your 2 ink carts. also the ink for kodak is ~30$ usd total for both black and color not just one of them.

Yes. #16 black cartridge is compatible with Lexmark X1270 printer. Other compatible cartridges are: #17 (black), #26 (color) and #27 (color). Hope this helps.

It works with both 16 and 17 for Black and 26 and 27 for Color.
Go to the Panel from Lexmark X1100 series- Series Solution Center and select the new type of cartridges. Allign the cartridges, make an excel test with 4 colors(cyan, magenta, yellow, black) and it should work

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Thank you

my printer was working fine before it ran out of ink

your cartridge is about 100 pages of ink. Try to buy #16 black and #26 color for best results and economy, since #16 have about 250 pages resource.

clean the cartridges conector and ur printer ones.

then print test page.

Lexmark technical support should be able to help resolve this problem, assuming the cartridges were Lexmark branded. Contact information is on www.lexmark.com.

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Make sure the printer settings are set properly to print in color on the PC. Even if there is a color cartridge, if the PC only tells it to print black ink it's not going to use the color cartridge.