Konzertjunkie

I got rid of my old printer (half a year ago? a year ago? whatever...) when it started to take me more than fifteen minutes to get it ready to print. Taking out the cartridges, cleaning them, cleaning the printer heads, putting back the cartridge, repeat about ten times, turn off the printer, unplug it, ... you know the story.

So, new one. Cheap one, actually - but hey, I don't want great prints. I don't even need color prints. I just want to be able to print out stuff.

The new printer is incredibly slow, but okay, I'm patient. Also, it just drinks ink, I assume. Because I have to replace the cartridges about every third or fourth time I try to print something... *grr* OK, luckily, I don't need the printer so often. And luckily, refills are cheap (maybe "real" cartridges would last longer, but probably not long enough to be the cheaper alternative).

Now, I just wanted to print out one page. Nope, no ink left. *grr* Okay, so blue and red were empty. From one second to the next - nothing like "you are low on ink", no, the printer just refused to print. I still had a red cartridge, but no blue one. Grr...

And now, can anyone please tell me why the printer desperately needs a fresh blue cartridge to print out one page? In black and white? When the whole printer is set to black and white anyway? Which leads to the next question: Why is the blue and the red cartridge empty? When I only print in black and white?

Grr... guess I should go back to my old matrix printer. That one actually worked.
Sometimes, at least.