Printing In Black Ink With An Empty Color Cartridge - Epson Stylus Color 1520 User Manual

Caution:
Never turn off the printer
while the Pause light is
flashing.
If, however, the Pause
light is still flashing after
10 minutes and the
printer is not moving or
making noise, you may
turn off the printer.
Caution:
If you're printing on
continuous label paper,
don't press Load/Eject;
this feeds the paper
backward and may cause
labels to tear off inside
the printer. Follow the
steps on page 3-18
instead.
The light flashes and the printer makes various
Pause
sounds. Charging takes about several minutes, depending
on whether you replaced one or both cartridges.
When it's finished, the
button to turn it off and resume printing.
Pause
Printing in Black Ink with an Empty Color
Cartridge
If your color ink cartridge runs out of ink and the
light comes on, you can still continue printing with black ink.
(If the black ink cartridge runs out of ink, you cannot continue
printing.) However, you will need to resend any print job you
were printing when the color ink ran out. Follow these steps:
1. Turn off the printer.
2. Wait about five seconds and then turn the printer back on
again. Don't remove the empty color ink cartridge.
3. Press the
Load/Eject
path or advance continuous paper to the tear-off edge. Tear
off any continuous sheets and press
park the continuous paper out of the path.
4. Access the printer software in your application as described
in Chapter 1. Change the Ink setting for your document to
and change any other settings as necessary. Then
Black
print the document.
To switch back to color printing, follow the steps beginning on
page 6-4 to replace the color ink cartridge. Then turn the
printer off and on again to reset color printing mode. Before
you print, be sure to set the Ink setting to
software as described in Chapters 1 and 2.
6-7
Maintenance and Transportation
light stays on; press the
Pause
button to eject any paper in the paper
Load/Eject
Color
Ink Out
A
again to
in your printer