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if purchase hp color inkjet printer and comes with color cartlidge must I buy the black cart. to print text?

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1. no, u can print text in color as well
2. ya definete;y u have to buy an black cartridge but u will be getting it with the printer itself.
3. That's strange I would verify if the black ink is part of the package, HP always provides both if the printer can handle color and black
4. If you want black text, you gotta have a black cartridge.
5. I believe that most printers require both cartlidges to print.
6. whenever u purchase a printer it comes with black and color cartridges by default, if u hadnt got the black means.. purchase it coz using of color cartridge cost is high compare to black one. we can take a text print using color cartridges therez no problem in that but the cost will be higher comparably.
7. Hi there: It would help to IDENTIFY the HP model. Some HPs use only ONE cart, either the colour, OR the Black. The Colour Carts print black by layering all three colours, the Yellow, then the red, then the BLUE on thick, so the resulting colour is BLACK. This gives you Very high quality black, but uses a LOT of ink. If you do a great deal of BLACK AND WHITE text print, you then take out the colour cart, and put in a Black cart that is 3 times as big ( as any single colour). SOME, HP printers can use colour only, and the black is in a separate bay, as an option, as might be a black and light blue, and light red to give you 6 'colours" or photo quality. IFF the printer ships with only a single cart, colour, then you can print anything, including black and white - I do not know of any printer, NEW, that will not print without having you buy another cart. Some printers ship with ONLY BLACK, so that you have to buy a colour cart to print any colour, but these printers are clearly labelled as such. Some printers, with both the colour and the Black cart installed, actually cheat a bit and print BLACK, set at high quality, with a layer of BLUE, with a layer of BLACK on top, which results in a darker, crisper " BLACK" than " BLACK " alone, and some printers, again, on the highest quality setting, use all 4 'colours', yellow, red, blue AND black, to make black lettering. The typical computer user is unaware of these differences, and the documentation rarely tells the user about these printing differences. Hope this helps. robin
8. No