The new EPSONs (C41s anyway) do the same. - If you have an empty colour cart. it still won't print black - regardless of the amount of ink in the black cart. It (doesn't) work the other way either! !!!! Does anyone know anythink about resetting the chips in these cartriges? Refilling the ink is easy - it's resetting the chip that is hard. (Googleing didn't come up with anything useful last time I tried - at least as far as the C41 items are concerned). But it must be possible - I just got one refilled commercially. Richard P >> > HP have released a printer, the 3325, replaces the 6XX series >> printers. Colour inkjet, comes with two cartridges (b/w & colour) >> for >> > $69... Likely they are "starter" cartridges that run out very quickly. The last HP inkjet (and now I mean the LAST one) I bought came with those. I barely got 50 pages (mostly webpages) out of it before one of the carts was out of ink. And it won't print if one of the carts is out of ink, even if the document would only use the other cart. Hint: EPSON Cheers, Bob -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics