EggXpert

This printer has 4 different toners required for printing, Magenta, Cyan, Yellow, and Black. If there's plenty of Black and low on the others, it's not allowing me to print in only black'n white!  I'm required to pay lots of money for the other toners when I only really need blk & white ....                        Has anyone else experienced this and/or possibly have a work-around?

Thanks in advance.

I think it's because the black turns kinda grey when you put it on white paper.. So to get the true shiny black, HP will use a little color on black as well..  If you want to print using just black, then you turn on "print in greyscale" in your printer options..  I have an HP deskjet that also uses color when it prints just black text.. Really sucks, but I guess that's just HP lining it's pockets full of money on those color ink carts, but there *might* be a real reason behind it as well.. 

In any case, printing in greyscale really uses only the black but I noticed it's no longer a shiny black, at least on the ink jets.. It's more of a really dull black without mixing some color.