Does colour printer ink also print in black?

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I know this is probably a really stupid question
I'm so not good with technology
I can't find the answers online
Would this also print black too ?
The black is sold out and my printer is low

Anyone ?

I don’t know for sure but if it did why would I have both in my printer?

Don't know that make, but if they sell black separately, then the chances are you need black separately. The black's often a bigger cartridge too.

When my printer runs out of black it asks if it can make do with colour, and makes a slightly faded black colour.

No.

You could print in dark navy though? Or brown?

But that’s when it knows the colours are there. I wouldn’t put a colour cartridge in the black space as presumably the colour one has sections in it and it won’t fit/work properly.

Just guessing though.

I think dark navy or faded black would be okay
I just need to print some boarding passes and transfer paperwork
Great time for it to run out

So, you have colour ok or is that empty too? Try and print if you do have colour and see what happens.

On my HP printer, when the black runs out, you can remove it from the printer and the colour cartridge compensates and prints in black. Think we had an error warning but when you click ok it just continues as normal.

The colour is low and the black is low too so both need replacing

It’ll print a sort of ‘fake black’ - basically it’ll try but it won’t be black. Do the boarding passes need to be scanned? That could be an issue if they’re too faint. You can’t get to the physical shops?

Check for stock at your local Argos: www.argos.co.uk/product/1666773

refreshcartridges.co.uk/igloo/printing-with-the-black-ink-cartridge-only/

They are Ryanair boarding passes so deffo need to be printed and nowhere within a 1 hour radius of me that I can go to print which is a pain
All my local Argos are oos for delivery /collection of the ink too
I was half tempted to buy a new printer just for black ink 😂

Amy friend who can help you out? Print at their office and drop back to you etc?

Do you have Amazon Prime? Will do next day delivery. (Might be worth signing up for the free month trial if you're not already a member)

(Sorry - if it's Amazon who are sold out, that's not very helpful advice!)

On Amazon:

try places like tesco etc - they will have own brand which should be compatable - you will need to know your printer model/normal ink number etc

Do you have a Rymans nearby?

I printed some at the airport once ££££ but needs must.

however that was pre covid so you'd need to check you can still do it?

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Take the cartridge out and give it a light shake (somewhere it won't make a mess) Sometimes this fools the printer enough to print a few pages

A potential option is to go to the printer settings and select an option ‘print in greyscale’

If using windows then go to - control panel, printers, pick the printer

then look through its driver settings / preferences etc for the greyscale/grayscale option

Some printers may offer to use colour to make black once it’s run out

If it’s all failing then make what you’re printing a colour instead of black ….. but how depends on what you’re printing

If you’re lucky and it’s text, and you can get it into a word processor etc then highlight the text and choose a font colour
Blue is often a good choice

If you’re not so lucky then you can get away with treating it as a picture:
Hit printscreen, paste into a photo editing programme, paint etc

Then you need ‘colour replace’ something like this: