Printing with only black ink

when i bought the hp 8600 officejet pro plus, i was toil that you didnt have to replace the empty color catridges to print in black ink only. i have jsut found out that is not true. is there a way to make printer print without replacing collor cartridges?

Most likely the confusion is caused because the Office Depot sales person and the bushiness associate did not distinguish between the different kinds of printers.
There are generally a few different technologies used for inkjet printers - those like the Deskjet 6940 that have printheads and ink supplies integrated together are called Integrated Print Head (IPH) printers.
Another style has separate individual ink supplies and printheads. This style has printheads that may be permanent and non-replaceable, or they may be replaceable after some number of ink supplies. These are called Individual Ink Cartridge (IIC) printers. An Examples are the Photosmart C7280, which has permanent non-replaceable printheads and the Officejet 8600 and 6700 which have replaceable printheads.
Most IPH printers will happily print with one (or even both) cartridges low on ink or empty. Recent models will often allow printing even if one of the cartridges is removed completely, switching automatically to "reserve mode" or "ink backup mode".
IIC printers have long life printheads and generally have plumbing to connect the ink supplies to the printheads. These printers (whether from HP or other manufacturers) generally require ink available in all colors to prevent air bubbles in the plumbing ar printhead. Some ink is also required to keep the nozzles from clogging. Even in the case of printing black only the color printheads are waving around in the air and may dry out. Some ink is required to keep the printhead from drying out.
The document here has some information on how ink is used.
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As you can see from the second pop-up menu, I have saved this setting as a preset.
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Hi Folks,
I now understand that this model, HP C5380 and I'm guessing many others too, are programed to use an amount of colour ink even when selected to print in Black.
My question is: Can I somehow program the printer to 'only print using the black ink cartridge' and not use the colour cartridges at all?
I have heard that this is possible with some models but need the specifics.
I am even willing to permanently disable the colour function if needed. The replacement ink catridges are so very expensive, if I'm unable to do this then I'll be looking for another printer and it won't be HP. Thi is unfortunate because I think they make a good quality product - however they need to be on notice that their customers 'good will' and return business will not be forthcoming when they (and other compaines) continue to use money making strategies like this.
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Print with only black cartridge HP OfficeJet 6700 Premium

Britt4:
I print 95% or more black-and-white pages. Maybe 5% of the time I am interested in color output. Same usage pattern for copying features.
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I'm in the same boat with my 6700 that I purchased recently (Dec 2013?). I've been using the setup cartridges for the few, mostly balck and white, pages that I have needed to print. I was printing a couple of tax forms and on the second one it refused to print, saying the cartridge was depleted. Fair enough, but it was rather inconvenient. I purchased a genuine HP black ink cartridge (832) for about $20 and installed it, but now it's reporting that all three color cartridges are depleted and need replacing. I tried removing and replacing them to no avail.
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Hewlett-Packard was once the premier line of electronic test equipment and I still have several that were made before the Agilent name change. And I've had several HP computers and have had some problems with them. But now I've become quite annoyed with the (lack of) performance from this HP printer and it looks like I'll be looking elsewhere for my next one(s).

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I am absolutely disgusted by this; clearly a scam from HP to make more money by selling extra ink cartridges!! I will make sure to never buy any products from the shoddy rip off merchants at HP ever again!!
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Hi @RRGS,
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