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 | Epson R320 Photo Printer Won't Print Black Ink by jasonjkane (7/12/06 12:53 PM) reply | + / - | Lately, my Epson R320 Photo Printer will not print black ink. I have tried multiple ink cartridges. They sometimes work for a page or two and then don't work at all. When I print a nozzle check there is no black ink at all, but the colors work fine. Needless to say, I print black the most and can't print and regular text documents. Can anyone identify the problem or offer a solution. I have run a clean print heads-run nozzle check cycles multiple times in a row to no avail. Thanks!
Jason
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 | Re: Epson Won't Print Black Ink by JASM (7/12/06 7:02 PM) reply | + / - | I have a similar problem with my Epson C80. I was printing out my income tax return, in black ink, with no skips or problems with the output when the printing program stopped because I was "out of ink." I replaced the old ink cartridge with the correct new Epson ink cartridge. My computer told me the cartridge was full, but the next page I printed was completely blank - not one single small dot of black ink. After working with it a few minutes (and having that day as the deadline to get my tax forms in) I concluded that the new cartridge itself was defective. I took it out and replaced it with another new Epson store cartridge. Still, I was unable to print in black. I also ran multiple nozzle checks and clean print head cycles, although I am convinced that I did not have any clogs. (After all, the printer had just finished pages with no skips.) I have removed and recharged my ink cartridge several times, to no avail. I contacted Epson web support, and their email reply was to give me a list of nearby repair places to take my (out of warranty) epson printer. They also told me that with my model printer, I could reinstall an ink cartridge after taking it out. I have been able to print papers for personal use by copying print to a word processing program, selecting all, and changing the color from black to dark blue, which prints fine. (the color looks like it uses black ink in the mix, but it may just be a combination of colors that creates the dark blue.) I am not able to change the color of charts and tables, so this method does not work for those. I don't feel like spending money to get my printer fixed when I could get a new one for not much more. I was hoping to find an alternative solution.
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| Re: Epson R320 Photo Printer Won't Print Black Ink by Berni350 (7/29/06 6:35 PM) reply | + / - | My Epson Stylus Color 800 printer has similar problems as yours. However, it just started happening after 2-3 years of being just fine.
My black ink cartridge reads that it is at least half full, but it won't print black ink lately. I have run the print tests, nozzle checks and clean print head cycles, etc. Nothing works but color - not dark blue - in my case, magenta, pinks, etc. Not sure how many colors work correctly.
I have a new color cartridge right now, but not a new black cartridge, so I guess I'm out of luck until I order new ones online. (I do that to save money - they're LOTS cheaper than in a store, but I'm sure that the quality is not great a lot of the time).
Any suggestion on how to get my black cartridge to print, since it does have ink? I guess maybe I should take it out and play with it? Well, any suggestions would be helpful.
Thanks. Berni
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 | Re: Epson R320 Photo Printer Won't Print Black Ink by JVic (8/9/06 4:00 PM) reply | + / - | Me too .... I tried everything and for the life in me I still can not get this to print. I also have the C80.
Any idease before I make a stop to office max to repace it ?
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| Re: Epson R320 Photo Printer Won't Print Black Ink by vancepacker (6/9/07 7:23 PM) reply | + / - | Yeah, I just wasted $14 on that kit and it didn't do me any good. Of course my same problem developed just after the year warranty. Hope Epson might monitor thses kinds of forums, because I'll never buy another epson again.
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| Re: Epson R320 Photo Printer Won't Print Black Ink by johnny8544 (1/2/08 7:31 PM) reply | + / - | I have an epson stylus C82. I changed all the cartridges as they were all just about out of ink. Now the epson not only won't print in black, but won't print in any color. And I did remove and reinsert the cartridges, and the status check showed all were properly inserted and full of ink. I did several head cleanings also to no avail. Tech support could not come up with anything additional, and told me would be best to buy a new epson as my warranty is up and repair cost will exceed cost of a new printer. I will try some other things like additional head cleanings, and may try the kit, but really this looks like epson is running a scam, where they program the printers to stop printing once warranty is up and after you insert new cartridges. If anyone has any solutions please reply.
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| Re: Epson R320 Photo Printer Won't Print Black Ink by Anonymous (1/15/08 6:29 PM) reply | + / - | Hey, I'm having the exact same problem and that thing Wes posted isn't helpful at all. Apparently Epson sucks and I'll never purchase another item from them for as long as I live. Thanks for the SHITTY printer Epson! I'm glad I don't need to print anything!
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| Re: Epson R320 Photo Printer Won't Print Black Ink by mmichaels1970 (1/21/08 4:18 PM) reply | + / - | I'm having the exact same problem with TWO Epson printers. A stylus Photo R320, and a Stylus C86. They both ran out of black ink (not really, shaking the cartridges sounded like there was still ink left. But we know that they have some stupid chip in there that forces us to buy ink even when we haven't actually run out of it). I replaced the black ink cartridges on both printers. First the C86...it wouldn't print black ink at all. So I decided that it was ok since I also have the Stylus Photo. I replaced the ink in the Stylus Photo, and now neither of my Stylus printers will print in black. A check on Epson's support site does not acknowledge this as a problem. What a joke.
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| Re: Epson R320 Photo Printer Won't Print Black Ink by vancepacker (1/22/08 5:46 PM) reply | + / - | Spread the word: avoid Epson like the plague!
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| Re: Epson R320 Photo Printer Won't Print Black Ink by Walter Krumberg (1/30/08 5:34 AM) reply | + / - | Not only has my Epson forced me to replace the color cartridges in order to print simple black text, but I have recently come to believe that the printer has also been sleeping with my wife.
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| Re: Re: Epson R320 Photo Printer Won't Print Black Ink by Anonymous (1/30/08 5:38 AM) reply | + / - | I advise you to check around certain areas of your house for odd-looking out of place cyan and magenta stains.
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| Re: Epson R320 Photo Printer Won't Print Black Ink by Anonymous (2/11/08 12:47 PM) reply | + / - | My printer will not print black ink can you helP/
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| Re: Epson R320 Photo Printer Won't Print Black Ink by a2c7 (2/12/08 2:54 AM) reply | + / - | My R340 pulled the same trick, replaced the ink cartridges and now no black. I put my fingers underneath the printer heads and managed to get some black ink stains on my hand, but still no black printing. I read on another website that if you can take out the printer carriage and get to the heads you can clean them with a damp kitchen towel or some type of solvent as often the ink can just clog up and head cleaning by the printer won't help this - the residue needs to be soaked off. I'm going to work out how to take apart my printer now, as I think it's out of warranty anyway, wish me luck!
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| Re: Epson R320 Photo Printer Won't Print Black Ink by tiredofjunk (2/23/08 9:02 AM) reply | + / - | I remember something in the mail about all this and there being a lawsuit against Epson because of the ink and printing stuff.
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| Re: Epson R320 Photo Printer Won't Print Black Ink by anonnymous (3/29/08 10:27 AM) reply | + / - | had same problem..after printing one last photo with old cartridges, I replaced all with new epson cartridges..tried to continue printing, but got absolutely nothing..did nozzle check an head cleaning and all shown in owner manual..no black, no color, no nothing..I think they had a bad buch of cartridges that shorted out the printer..going to go with canaon or hp..
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 | Re: Epson R320 Photo Printer Won't Print Black Ink by Megan Strange (7/9/08 6:04 PM) reply | + / - | Good news!
I had this problem with my Epson R320 and I just took out all the ink cartridges, wiped down the print heads and the nozzles with a damp cloth, and sprayed down the whole thing with one of those air dusters and it's good as new! Good luck and feel free to email me if you have questions.
:) Megan
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| Re: Epson R320 Photo Printer Won't Print Black Ink by Anonymous (8/21/08 4:43 PM) reply | + / - | same problem with both my epson printers.... r300 and r320...they both were bought at about the same time and they both quit printing black..
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| Re: Epson R320 Photo Printer Won't Print Black Ink by flyhal (9/1/08 9:32 AM) reply | + / - | Welcome to the club of epsons. Every one of thier printers do this at one time or another. My C120 done this on the original black cartridges. New won't help. With HP and others, you buy a new print head in each cartridge and pay a fortune. epsons have built in printheads which are the problem for plugging. I am now struggling to get this new printer going again. Like many companies, they really don't CARE about the customer. They look at the big picture and as long as they can con folks into buying, they are happy. This is the problem with out modern money hungry society. They don't care.
Frustrated Hal
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| Re: Epson R320 Photo Printer Won't Print Black Ink by Anonymous (11/23/08 4:58 AM) reply | +1 + / - | i have an epson stylus d 92 but when i tried to print off black text but it prints out plain paper
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| Re: Epson R320 Photo Printer Won't Print Black Ink by Anonymous (1/12/09 6:18 PM) reply | + / - | MY printer knows that I'm trying to fix it so it decided to gobble up my hand while i was trying to fix it. epson sucks. and i have papers to print. "bad word" YOU EPSON!
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| Re: Epson R320 Photo Printer Won't Print Black Ink by Anonymous (2/5/09 2:55 AM) reply | + / - | My epson is sooo bad it will only print BLUE BLUE BLUE notihning else!!! I h8 epson
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| Re: Epson R320 Photo Printer Won't Print Black Ink by flyhal (2/5/09 10:04 AM) reply | + / - | I solved my problem. I threw the new printer in the garbage can and vowed never to buy another Epson. I now have a Lexmark, but he jury is not out on this one yet. What you have to do is BUY CHEAP in this THROW-AWAY society. Usually you can get a printer for $50 or less with new cartridges. When they run out or quit, buy a new printer and don't get sucked in by the cartridge industry.
Hal
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| Re: Epson R320 Photo Printer Won't Print Black Ink by peaved (5/29/09 8:55 PM) reply | + / - | My Epson NX105 which is fairly new won't print now that I put a new black cartridge in. It was printing for a while on one that they said was out of ink. I got a good 20 copies out of my "empty" cartridge. The ink never got light or streaky, but they said I was out and refused to print until I replaced the cartridge. So I did, and now it won't print at all. It says it can't read the cartridges. I took them out and checked for leaks. There were none. I put them back and now it won't even acknowledge that I asked the thing to print. I am so pissed. I am going to have to drive 40 miles one way to get to the closest place I can buy ink and buy all the cartridges again I guess, or maybe another printer. Either way, I will be up all night doing paperwork tomorrow or get fired.
Sorry I have nothing positive to say. Just needed to rant and hope this may sway people to buy something else.
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| Re: Epson R320 Photo Printer Won't Print Black Ink by Anonymous (6/8/09 2:39 PM) reply | + / - | Megan's method really works.
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| Re: Epson R320 Photo Printer Won't Print Black Ink by dingobully (6/21/09 6:01 AM) reply | + / - | Ya. Epson is not our friend. My printer won't let me print in black because one of the COLOR cartridges is out (and it's not it's just a faulty genuine Epson 88 cart)! It's not an option. You HAVE to buy color ink to be allowed to use your black cartridge. Greedy bastard Epson executives!!!!!
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| Re: Re: Epson R320 Photo Printer Won't Print Black Ink by Anonymous (6/21/09 12:25 PM) reply | + / - | Hi dingobully:
Thanks for the response! Since then I got a new computer and a new Brother all-in-one printer (printer, copier, fax, etc.) and have had no problems at all! Not sure what I'll do with the old printer because it's worth keeping. Upgrading was long overdue in my case. I still had Win98 and now I have Vista!
Have a great day! Berni
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| Re: Epson R320 Photo Printer Won't Print Black Ink by Anonymous (6/22/09 4:54 AM) reply | + / - | Megans method really does work!
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| Re: Re: Epson R320 Photo Printer Won't Print Black Ink by Anonymous (9/12/09 10:57 AM) reply | + / - | never again - stick to basis HP that only prints black -end off!!! Epson are cunning greedy bastards that make sure that if a colour runs out it can only be replaced by same colour and not black (like other printers). Where the hell do you find a majenta cartridge at 9pm when all you need is black. Espon - AVOID.
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| Re: Epson R320 Photo Printer Won't Print Black Ink by Anonymous (9/12/09 11:56 AM) reply | + / - | My replacement Lexmark lets me print without a color cartridge but probalby no without a black cartridge. Some printers can make black with a color cartridge, I think so should be able to print and waste your color ink.
Epsons are throw-away printers. The do print nice photos so buy a cheap refurbished one and then throw it away when the ink runs dry.
Hal
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| Re: Epson Printer Won't Print Black Ink by Dorf (9/19/09 5:10 PM) reply | + / - | Even though I replaced black, the printer demands that the other colors are change, even when I want to only print in black... I think its all about EPSON wanting you to buy replacement cartidges... they can be found extremely cheap on the web, look for remaufactered, I stocked up...GOOD LUCK~
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| Re: Epson R320 Photo Printer Won't Print Black Ink by Fred Frog (11/2/09 2:11 PM) reply | + / - | Epson Printers lately are the biggest load of garbage on the planet.
Whoever heard of a printer that won't print BLACK when you can select USE BLACK INK ONLY in the control panel.
NO....You HAVE to have all the colour cartridges with ink in them to print BLACK.
So if you want to print a normal black ink on white paper letter, and your Cyan or red or blue cartridge is down on ink, you can't. Instead you get this eveil winking eye blinking at you almost ordering you to buy more cartridges from the GREEDY FAT CAT Epson organisation.
SOLUTION: Bin the printer. Buy Canon.
Epson has become a Zombie Company that couldn't care less about the people who buy its products... best avoided.
WASH YOUR EARS OUT EPSON......FOLKS AREN'T HAPPY>
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| Re: Epson R320 Photo Printer Won't Print Black Ink by Anonymous (11/3/09 9:03 AM) reply | + / - | Just did what Megan recommended and it worked a treat!
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 | Re: Re: Epson R320 Photo Printer Won't Print Black Ink by Anonymous (11/3/09 1:32 PM) reply | + / - | Hi there folks! I got notification in my email about this ongoing problem with Epson. Since I posted, I have a new system and my all-in-one-printer/copier/fax/scanner made by Brother is the same re printing black and white only. At first when my yellow color went out, it let me print in black only; however, not too long after that, I got the same message as you - won't print in black (anymore) which is total crap! Yes, we have the 'right to choose' in the printer menu but ALL companies these days (FYI: not just Epson) want us to BUY, BUY, BUY!
The best thing to do is to always keep the d____ed colors on hand or we won't be able to print at all. (until we get up and go to the store and buy one.) Ordering the generic version of one's cartridge online is the most economical, but I am leery with this new hardware, as 'generic' cartridges are said to mess up a good printer.
It is frutrating for sure! Thanks. Berni
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 | Re: Epson R320 Photo Printer Won't Print Black Ink by Anonymous (11/28/09 9:22 PM) reply | + / - | My printer wont print......... it's out of the yellow cartridge, but im trying to print a text document and it wont let me.what does yellow have to do with a text document. i have the epson stylus c120.
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| Re: Re: Epson R320 Photo Printer Won't Print Black Ink by Anonymous (12/17/09 7:10 PM) reply | + / - | I have an Epson printer and am constantly having problems with it. One thing I did do is I bought an Epson Cartridge Resetter, and the one I bought is called a Universal Chip Resetter. You can find them on the internet. It cost me about $15.oo including postage. That way you can reset the cartridge that you know has ink in it when the stupid Epson says that it can't read it. Also, you can refill the cartridges yourself. For all of that, my Epson has now decided that it just won't print out any ink! Now I am trying to find a cure for that!!!
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| Re: Epson R320 Photo Printer Won't Print Black Ink by hkshallk (1/5/10 12:49 PM) reply | + / - | I had the same problem with my Epson Photo 1270. I finally took out the black cartridge and used a rubber bulb syringe (the kind the hospitals give you to use on a newborns nose) to suck the clog out of the plastic thing that pierces the bottom of the cartridge. It's working again!
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| Re: Epson R320 Photo Printer Won't Print Black Ink by Anonymous (1/8/10 4:04 AM) reply | + / - | ef epson! I need a black and white document printed by tomorrow morning and my yellow is OUT! NOOOW I can't print anything at all! What the hell is that all about. I'm so irritated right now, screw epson and there idiotic ways of FORCing you to buy color cartridges, use them during black printing, and then not allowing you to continue printing even one black document when the color is gone. Tossing this ish in the trash tomorrow. Stay away unless you want to spend LOADS on ink. I don't print much, and it has only been a month and it needs ink. Wow, none of it was color either, all black and white, yet the color is all out.
/END RANT
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| Re: Epson R320 Photo Printer Won't Print Black Ink by Late (1/28/10 6:19 AM) reply | + / - | Megan's idea does work, it fixed my SX200. I still hate this printer though. It drinks colour ink even though I'm not using it. When you change one colour the charge cycle takes ink from all the others cartridges too. I've bought a new cartridge just to find when I close the lid it has emptied a different one and the thing still won't work. I'm kind of sorry it works now as I was looking forward to taking it out to the garden and smashing it!! I hate Epson. I'll never buy another.
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| Re: Epson R320 Photo Printer Won't Print Black Ink by Michaelec (2/1/10 2:28 PM) reply | + / - | I agree.. epson rubbish i will never ever purchase another. Same problem .. wont print. I have 2 Epons the r300 and its bigger brother the rx620 with in built scanner. I have NEVER EVER used cheap inks on the larger one, but always do on the smaller. Neither are reliable. The cheap inks are just as good... but every now and again it tels me theuy are not genuine inks and after plugging unplugging yeaning the wire out chargng re charging .. it starts working again. Again.. similar probs with the big printer that has genuine inks... just with nozzle cleaning head cleaning and no black ink. Epson design them this way and it TOTALLY sucks. Their software is rubbish results in hours of re printing wasted paper ank ink.. i dont know what the alternative is. Gotta try meagans tip now... even if it does work next the printer will need to 'charge inks' and will no doubt be telling me i need new cartriges shortly. EPSON + RIP OFF!
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