I am a user of HP 1400 Printer cum Scanner which provides two slots for

one black and one color cartridge.
If the color cartridge has dried up and I am urgently in need of
printing out a document in black, can I print in black keeping the
exhasted color cartridge in the cradle? Have I to press the Black
button on the Printer for starting the print operation?
Similarly if the black cartridge has dried up, can I print in color,
keeping the exhausted black cartridge in the cradle as a dummy? Have I
to press the Color Button on the Printer to start operation?
Why doesn't HP provide a Manual of instructions for handling different
situations of this type?

P. Jayant

HP makes money by selling ink cartridges, not by telling you how to postpone
or avoid buying them.
The scenarios you mention can damage the heads, or require manual head
cleaning.
One or two pages is one thing, a large report another.

"p jayant" <p.n.jayant (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote