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My Epson printer uses color ink when I tell it "Black ink only!!"?

I have an epson stylus cx5000 and in print options, i choose BLACK INK ONLY but i always notice the color cartridges going down, even though i only use it for black ink. I dont see any color ink coming out but i have to keep replacing the color cartridges! is this some epson scam? HOw do i fix this? I only want to use black one cartridge for black, one for red, one for yellow, one for blue and i already did the "black ink only" but over a couple weeks the color ones go down too.

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1. Hi Urb Does it conme with one black separate cartrdige or is everything combined under one cartdrige. If it's combined, than the printer is using the 3 colors to get black. If their are 2 cartridges, then go in the setting of your printing software and choose, Print all text in black.