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I replace them, and run the diagnoistics again.Д¬onspiracy #3 No seriously, replacing ink cartridges do drain the others. After replacing it, two more warnings pop up on two other cartridges!!Д¬onspiracy #2 Replacing one ink cartridge drains the others.

I replace the light cyan, and take note that it is the only cartridge with a warning sign on it. (thanks windows, and thanks again for not keeping it stored in memory somewhere for retrieval.)ДЄnyway, back to replacing ink.

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Poof the (unsaved) document I was working on is gone as windows closes the entire application that called the printer dialog. So when I try to close the window, Windows asks me if I want to end the program, I say 'end now' since it is the only option that will get me anywhere.

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Oops again, the screen doesn't go away, and just freezes up telling me it can no longer talk to my printer, and being the girl that my printer software is, implied that if I didn't know what's wrong, it wasn't going to tell me. No cartridge is indiciated, so I just click 'OK' until the screen goes away so I can bring up the diagnostics again to see what needs replacing. Oops, I'm out of ink again and need to replace the 'indicated cartridge'. Naturally, after replacing the light yellow ink, and being sure enough black ink is in there, I run a cartridge cleaning cycle. I run a test, and apparently one of the nozzles on the black cartridge is clogged. Oddly enough, the black ink is lasting fine, but the light yellow has gone out, so I replace it, (so I can print a black and white picture with the 'black ink only' box checked), and the black and white picture comes out splotchy. Since I generally deal in black and white, I assume that would be the one to go first.Д¬onspiracy #1 Black ink is the most common, and therefore developed in such bulk that it could be half the cost of the other colors, but in fact is twice the price for the same size ink cartridge as the rest of the colors. I bought a photo printer with 6 separate ink cartridges so I only have to replace the colors I use the most. Thus a chap at a church will print color brochures for a church's mailing and go through wads of cartridges that the church pays for.While I'm not one to usually give in to corporate conspiracy theories, I must admit that I'm a bit skeptical of the inkjet printing industry at the moment. Moist photographers shoot images for fun and few really keep track of actual printing costs.

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To get you hooked they sell the printers almost at cost and bundled with wimpy 1/2 full starter ink cartridges. Thus they purposely want a weird cartridge that is not refillable and you can only buy from them. The economic model is to sell the printer to you and reap the cash flow from all those ink cartridges. With this type unit cleaning out the tray with pad will not work.

On a cheapie unit they just count the units cycles and estimate when it is full. There 'i am full' signal on a higher end consumer unit has a sensor that senses when it is full. The non replaceable tanks often have a sponge like pad that absorbs the waste ink. Most here would NOT pay a few hundred more for a replaceable tank design thus this scheme is used. The non replaceable tanks are often buried in the bowels of the printer thus paying another to 'fix' your printer is typically not worth the labor cost involved. Be warned this can be a messy job and often you will look like a 1st grader in art class that got into paints or magic markers. There are youtube videos of enterprising folks who actually do the super messy draining of theses 'nonreplaceable' tanks. On a lower end consumer printer this tank is considered not replaceable.

On a big commercial printer there is a replaceable waste tank. Some of these units have a tank that fills up with the ink used during prime and start cycles.