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Re: how to disable color ink cartidges?

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From: George E. Cawthon
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 23:43
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Well, I'm confused.  Sure you can set up the 
printers (whatever that means).  But if you have 
several printers, just switch the empty 
cartridges among the printers.  Might want to keep 
track of where the cartridges come from and go to 
so that the next time you need to switch them they 
don't go back to the printer they came from. 
Remember all you have to do is put a new (to the 
printer) cartridge in the printer.  The printer 
will assume that it is new full cartridge and 
operate without any adverse message whether or not 
the cartridge is full or empty.

A. Jacobs wrote:
> Thank you very much George.
> OK, we have many same type of HP970cxi in several floors of offices here.
> I have a new color ink cartridge and many old empty color ink cartridges.
> I would like to keep the empty color ink cartridges in the printers and
> print in black only. Can I set up the printers? Thank you.
> 
> "George E. Cawthon" <GeorgeC-Boise@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
> news:0kNQe.148434$5N3.142534@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
> 
>>What do you mean go on?  You don't go on, you turn
>>the printer off. If necessary you pull the plug.
>>
>>Your questions as I understood it was how to get
>>rid of the annoying low ink level message.  That
>>is what this is about, clearing the memory of the
>>ink cartridge (status) so you don't get the message.
>>And no, you can't print without a color cartridge
>>in place.
>>
>>Ok, you don't understand. so here it is.
>>
>>(1) Turn on the printer.  open the cover and the
>>ink cartridges move to an accessible area.
>>Unlatch the color cartridge and remove it and put
>>the latch down.  push the on/off button.  The head
>>moves to the park position and goes off.  (2)Wait
>>5-10 seconds and push off/on button.  The head to
>>the far left, rollers turn, the head moves to the
>>far right, then moves to the far left and then it
>>moves to the "problem with color cartridge" stop.
>>  Turn off the printer.  The head moves to the
>>right and parks. (3) repeat step (2) two more
>>times. (4) put the old color cartridge back and
>>close the lid.  Wait (might take several seconds
>>to start)  and the head should do an alignment.
>>(if not, click print on the computer and go to
>>tools and do an alignment (click "Calibrate the
>>device").
>>
>>Now you should not get the low ink message because
>>the printer thinks a new cartridge was installed.
>>  When you do get another message just repeat the
>>above procedure).
>>
>>I just ran the procedure on my 970 and it seems to
>>work fine.
> 
> 
> 

Well, I'm confused
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