Print black and white only, on Hp photosmart 5514.

Hi,
I dont like it at all that i have to contact support forums for something like this.
it use to be so easy to choose color or black and white printing.
Why have you made it so difficult ? Totally pisses me off but i leave that for the feedback section.
I have seen others with the same problem so it is not only me. now it has taken more than 20 minutes and i have to get to work soon.
So, how do I print black and white (or greyscale) using my newly bought hp photosmart 5514 ? ( is it smart ???)
I have been wasting a lot of ink now, very unsmooth not having it available in the ordinary printing window.
Like it matters, i use win 7 blablabla

I also hate that there is NO WHERE to find a simple answer.  I have a "HUGE" XL cartridge of black only.  Then I have to buy all the stupid little tiny color cartridges AND another little black cartridge.
Here I suppose: when I print in color, I use the color + small black cartridge.
When I want to print BLACK ONLY or GRAYSCALE, I choose that and it only prints using the XL big black cartridge.
WRONG.  And no one can seem to answer this correctly, t but I know it does not work.
Remove 1 empty color cartridge whole printer won't work, even if I want black print only.
If all the small "color" cartridges + small blk cartridge is low but the BIG BLACK cartridge is showing full, still won't print BLACK ONLY.
I cannot PRINT with this stupid printer unless all cartridges have ink and are inserted.  STUPID
I am now late to work simply because I cannot print a document PERIOD unless I have full color sitting there.
I just tried it multiple ways, grayscale, black only blah blah and it ALWAYS came out too- light, ie the sm blk cartridge was being used and it is admittedly LOW ON INK.  WHAT is the big black cartridge doing there, saying it is full and not printing "black only" or "grayscale"? 
The only article I could find that halfway enlioghtened me to the problem was HP page stating that "black"  is never really black, to improve quality (thanks for making the decision for me) HP adds just a bit of color here and there to make black really black for paper quality paper.
SO SNARLING.  Going to *bay to get refilled cartridges so I can print in a week.  SNARL

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