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No black My printer has just stopped printing black, all others colours are fine. The cartridge was not empty and replacement with a new one has made no difference. Any ideas?
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It appears that one can purchase the black cartridge separately from the colour cartridges. But your Brother machine is designed to stop ALL printing operations when any of the ink cartridges are empty. In that case you would need to replace all ink cartridges that are empty in order to resume printing.
I have a similiar issue that just started happening recently - the printer shows FULL inks but the PC thinks it has empty inks. I tried the * #, 123 reset hardware failures, but that didnt help. Printer run self diagnostics says all is fine....
I am using USB connections - and this has been fine for years, until now. Maybe a microsoft patch issue?
No you cannot. Each one of your cartridges is smart chipped. When this cartridge registers as empty it acts as an on/off switch thus turning the printer off.'
You need to replace the empty cartridge in order to print.
Go printer settings and check option to print only black.
Hi, this is not a solution because I don't think there is one apart from buying new inks. Epson and all other inkjet printers do this to prevent the coloured print head nozzles from getting blocked. If they are not used for a long time the ink dries up and blocks the nozzles. Epson recommends printing at least once a month with all colours to prevent this. Printing in black only option will only work if the colored inks are OK. Whenever the printer is turned on it performs a head clean, this is why the coloured inks get used over time even though they are not used for printing.
take all catridges out and unplug the power cord and press and hold the ON button for 1 min and plug back the power cord and insert the catridges one by one. Press set up and scroll down to tools and under tools u wil have a option called align catridges or print head, do that it should resolve your issue with the printer.
Most likely you have no black cartridge installed or it is empty causing your printer to use the colour cartridge for black. But if your colour cartridge has 1 colour which is less full than the others it causes black to become greenish or sometimes reddish depending on which colour is less. A new cartridge or a black cartridge will solve the problem.
Tried head cleaning several times, but no change
Same problem here. Went through same steps still no change,any more suggestions?
Same problem.
Replaced all inks
ran head cleaner and nozzle check 8+ times.
Removed black ink. Cleaned around nozzle with rubbing alcohol (worked on on my old HP). Cleaned heads again, ran nozzle check -- still no black.
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