Disable Color Printing 8500 Wireless

My two high school daughters were writing final exam papers and tried to print their reports. No colors needed. It's midnight. The printer says, "Replace yellow cartridge to continue printing." Couldn't print. How silly. I tried to figure a way to disable the color on the printer-to no avail. The tears and stress was aggravating. How do I DISABLE the color on the HP8500 wireless printer should I run into this problem in the future? Thank you verrry much!

You can go into the printer preferences on the computer.
Change the setting to GREYSCALE or ENABLE all black text.
Even though it will print in black text, color cartridges will still be used to print. The colors mix together with the black to make a true black color.
So eventually, the color cartridges will still run out.
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Hi TM1997,
I understand you have an Officejet 8500 Wireless that is not printing red properly, it keeps turning to magenta. I'm sorry to hear this, but I will definitely do my best to help you!
As I'm sure you saw, when replacing the black and yellow printhead, that there are two printheads in the Officejet 8500 and the second one controls the magenta and cyan. I would suggest that you first have a look through this Troubleshooting Print Quality Issues document. You can also manually clean your printhead with the steps in this 'The Following Printhead Appears to be Missing or Damaged' or 'The Following Printhead has a Problem... document.
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I posted this elsewhere, but I think I posted it on the wrong Forum so I am posting it here now. I hope I did not do anything to upset anyone. I am new to this area, please forgive my clumsiness.
I have a HP Officejet Pro 8500 Wireless All-in-One Printer. I've had my printer since December 2009 and no problems. I recently bought a new laptop with Windows 7 and had to go online to find the drivers that work for my printer. Windows 7 was not compatible with this printer.
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Re-install using the HP Printer Install Wizard for Windows.
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1cairobeller,
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I have a HP Officejet Pro 8500 Wireless that will not print Green.
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Please start off by making sure you have the printer power cable connected directly to a wall outlet and not a power bar/strip. I have a document that uses a LaserJet printer as an example but is meant for HP products in general. Please click the following link that explains the Issues when Connected to an Uninterruptible Power Supply/Power Strip/Surge Protector.
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I understand that you're having print quality printhead related issues on your HP Officejet 8500 Wireless All-in-One Printer. I would like to work with you today in resolving the issue of not being able to remove your Printheads. Now I understand that you have already tried new cartridges and run the cleaning and aligning on the product to no avail. At this point you have determined that the printheads are defective.
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Part Number for HP 940 Black and Yellow Printhead: C4900a
Part Number for HP 940 Magenta and Cyan Printhead: C4901a
I'm going to provide you steps on how to properly remove the printheads in your product. Because your printheads failed to initially move to the left I'm going to have you start by running a power reset.
Step 1: Power Reset:
With your printer powered on, disconnect your power cable.
After 30 seconds, plug your power cable back in to the printer.
Your printer should turn on automatically.
Once the printer returns to the ready state, follow the steps below.
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Please let me know if the steps provided resolve your issue. Should you have further issues be sure to let me know. Good luck!
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Hi @trudi39 , and welcome to the HP Forums!
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