Officejet 6100 won't print in B&W without full color cartridges installed (RIPOFF)

NEVER again will I purchase any HP product.
I had an important document to print up last night, and this printer will not work even with all settings to black and white only if any of the color cartridges are empty or missing.
You are extorting money from customers who bought your product in good faith.
I will be replacing this with a Canon printer today.
You have lost a customer with your skeezy business practices HP.
SHAME!
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The color cartridge(s) are NOT out of the printer. They are still installed in the printer. They are just low or out of color ink. I have not taken them out of the printer at any time.
The printer will not print when only black ink is required for the print job. The printer will NOT print at all right now!!! ALL of my HP printers in the past have printed in black ink when the color cartridge ink is empty. They will even print what is normally in color in grey.
Again this printer will not print at all without color ink in the ink cartridges that are installed in the printer!  
My husband is currently unemployed due to the declining economy. He was laid off after working for the same company for 23+ years. We recently bought this printer when our former HP printer stopped working. We bought this printer the day our old one stopped working because my husband needs to be looking for work by mailing resumes & cover letters. Again, we were using this printer to print resumes & cover letters.  On the very rarest of occassion this printer was used for color printing. 
I am NOT happy with this printer! Why will it not print in black when the installed color cartridges are empty?????
Kathryn {personal info removed}

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