Printer problems

I own a Lexmark X83 printer (worst fucking thing) and ran out of color ink. I replaced the color cartridge with a new one and can print fine.......



......in color only. For some reason, the black cartridge (which is half full) doesn't want to print. Everything I print comes out blank unless it was originally in a color other than black. I have to highlight what I want to print and change the color so that it shows up.

Can anyone help? Please reserve all witty "buy yourself a new printer, you're fucked, etc..." posts as they do not help at all.

Thanks!

Melf... you should just buy a new printer. Theyre so damn cheap now, and the only other thing I would recommend would be to buy new ink cartridges. But those ink cartridges would probably be the same price as the printer itself, and like you said, its a POS printer.

I'm not sure if this is the case with all printers, but with mine, it does a quite color bar printing right after I've installed a new printer cartridge. Does your do this/did it do this?

yeah my epson stylus will refuse to print black even tho i know damn well theres ink in it. what i have to do is run a nozzle check, then a test pattern and then the head cleaning. then it works fine.

Hmm. I did a nozzle cleaning test and all the colors except black came out. However, the test page came out perfect.


Jeremy- My printer does the alignment page thing when you install new catridges.

I don't know why it's doing this now. it's always worked perfectly and it's only about a year old.

Try looking in the manual (troubleshooting), or calling the company for help?

try fiddling in your printer properties tabs, or access the printer properties thru a program like word or something and try tinkering, I dunno what O/S you have thoguh.

Does it print black if you are making a plain B&W copy without the PC turned on?

It won't print in black at all, copies or otherwise. I'm using XP. I'll have to try tinkering with the properites.

If not, an email to Lexmark is in order. :(

urgh lexmark, i used to have a lexmark printer - i got two letters for you - HP. they make really good printers, well... not the best but mine hasn't given me any trouble so far. *knocks on wood*