Printing now only in B&W on 990Cx

I have an old but perfectly good HP 990CXi printer that, since installing Mavericks, now only prints in black and white. EXCEPT, the test oage which does print in colour. Tried deteting and adding printer several times but seems to make no difference. Any suggestions or is this the end of my otherwise fine printer?!

This thread had a similar problem:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/23615076?ac_cid=tw123456#23615076
And there were possible solutions here:
This thread may help:
http://www.fixyourownprinter.com/forums/inkjet/71278
The Gutenprint drivers may also help:
http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/p_Supported_Printers.php
There is support for the 990C, and that driver may work.
Hope this helps.

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Hi,
I would have thought that by selecting printing with the black cartridge only, via the driver, that only black would be used in printing.
I am not 100% sure that this printer supports it but it may be possible to print with only the black cartridge installed. On printers where this is possible the unit works in single cartridge mode.
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Britt4:
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deibu wrote:
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how do I set up my printer to only print in black?

Please read this post then provide some details. What printer model? What operating system? Depending on your printer model you might remove the color cartridge, forcing black only printing, or select "Print in Grayscale" and "Black ink only" in the driver.
Some printer models (whether from HP or other manufacturers) may not allow printing in black if the color inks are empty. There are also some other constraints, black only printing is generally not available when printing on photo papers and may not be available when printing with an automatic two-sided duplexer.
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