I ran out of the cyan cartridge on my Brother MFC-490CW printer. All I need is to print something in black and white. I thought there would be a feature that can disable the color. I don’t see it on the printer’s LCD. I set my print properties to print in grayscale – it won’t let me print. The printer just won’t print until I replace the color cartridge that is not going to be used.

At least my HP 1600N printer allows me to override the cartridge message and continue to print. I wish this was a standard feature with all printers. Guess I’ll have to wait for the cartridge to come in. I’ll continue to use my laserjet which I started to pack up and store.