Won't print in color

Do you have an Anti-Virus program installed on your PC? If so, can you try and disable it before you print.

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uh,faulty ink carterige, buy another one & don't forget to remove the clear tape seal..on the carteridge

you are having a defective printer head so just got it replace or get another printer

I just had this exact problem on my HP 5514. Black won't print after running out of black ink. New cartridge no good.
I tried everything-no good. I suspected the pinholes in the printhead were clogged with dried ink because I didn't change cartridge in time.
The fix that worked perfectly was when I hacksaw top off old black cartridge & removed all foam wicks so now I had a funnel(can see clear thru). I installed the cartridge & filled it with alcohol, printed page & did head clean; then printed few more pages. Problem cleared almost immediately. I then soaked up extra alcohol inside cartridge with paper towel. Removed modified cartridge & installed good one. I guess this could be done for colors as well. I don't know if this is a proper procedure, but it sure worked well for me.

There is a place in the printer driver (epson part) that hays checkboxes for "color" and "Black & White". If you are trying to do this becasue you are out of one or more of the color inks, and can't print- you still won't be able to until you replace the empty ink(s), even though you told it black & White

on the print page just before printing , go to properties and make black the default color

Did you try setting the color printing in printer properties.
If you have XP;
Open 'Printers and faxes'.
Right-click your printer and select 'Properties'.
Click 'Advanced' tab.
Click 'Printing Defaults' button close to bottom.
Select 'Paper/Quality' tab.


Select 'Color' option.
Click OK until all dialog boxes are closed.

Open 'Printers and Faxes'.
Right-click your printer and select properties.
Click 'Printing Preferences' button (Close to the bottom of the dialogue).
Click 'Paper/Quality' tab from top.
Select 'Black & White'.

Click 'OK'.
If you want to use B&W cartridge for all documents, Click 'Printing Defaults' button from advanced tab and change the same setting.

in your printer try to press on the restart button and hold it for about 8 to 10 seconds. by the way the ink cartridges that you installed are the genuine ink cartridges, if not then its gonna be normal that it won't detect as new.

that is because ur head of ur printing cartridge is damaged.

remove ur cartridges black as well as color
n install only black cartridge n check d blinking of lights on ur printer if it doesn't blinks it's mean ur black cartridge is OK but ur blinking of light on ur printer is same it's mean ur head of black cartridge is damaged
after this process remove the black one cartridge and install the color one cartridge n check d blinking of lights on ur printer if it doesn't blinks it's mean ur color cartridge is OK but ur blinking of light on ur printer is same it's mean ur head of color cartridge is damaged
now take a dry cotton cloth n gently clean ur cartridges head install both cartridges on ur printer n check ur blinking light on ur printer that will work only if u r too lucky other wise u have to purchase a one cartridge.