Printing Issue with my Epson 600 workforce

[McRackin]

I'm out of Cyan ink. All I want to do is print black and white. I've set my settings to only print black and white, but when I try to print something, a stupid "BUY EPSON INK NOW" box appears and it wants me to buy ink before it prints. WHAT THE F....

 

[E4g1e]

I'm out of Cyan ink. All I want to do is print black and white. I've set my settings to only print black and white, but when I try to print something, a stupid "BUY EPSON INK NOW" box appears and it wants me to buy ink before it prints. WHAT THE F....

All modern printers will not print anything at all unless all of the ink cartridges are installed. This is a safety feature to prevent more serious and permanent damage to the ink mechanism.

 

[McRackin]

so, time to throw away my printer and buy a new one because ink will cost around $90 to replace?

 

[Dangman]

so, time to throw away my printer and buy a new one because ink will cost around $90 to replace?

Then you would be in the same place you are now in a few months/weeks when that new printer runs out of ink.

That's the way most printer companies make their money now: Offer cheap printers but make it up with costly ink cartridges.

 

[Sakom]

I have the same printer, and you can find individual cartridges for the color you need, wouldn't cost more than $15 to fix and get running. I hate when mine does it as well, nothing you can really do unless you go the color laser route and deal with toner instead.