On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 2:51 AM, Michael Hennebry < hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote: > > I have an HP Photosmart C3180 All-in-one. > As I haven't had any need for color lately, > when I last replaced ink, I only replaced the black cartridge. > It didn't work, even when printing grayscale-only images, > even when telling print-set-up grayscale-only. > Is there a way to tell my printer to use only the black ink cartridge. > My test image is a handmade postscript file > that only use setgray to set the color. Via the printer's settings options (GUI) and there should be a drop down for color options (in the past I've set color, grayscale, black). Or you could use lpoptions https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=955786#p955786 -- ---~~.~~--- Mike // SilverTip257 //