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This printer has been slowly but surely testing my patience since I bought it. The audacity this ****** shows is amazing. It's one of those deals where the color cartridges are bought individually, so if you run out of yellow ink, you don't have to replace the entire color cartridge, just the yellow... Yea, in theory. I noticed some funny business going on with the low ink warnings, as I rarely print in color. I got so pissed at it one day I did an experiment. I replaced the "empty" cartridges, and printed nothing but black and white. Eventually, I got a warning indicating me I was low on just about every color, despite never using them. I'm fairly confident the printer has some sort of internal timer that eventually says you're out of color X, despite never using it. Not a big deal right, wrong. It won't print anything in black and white until you replace the colors. Nice. I really get upset when this ***** goes into warning mode. It will warn me that I'm "low" on blue, pink and yellow ink. Then the next day, I'm out. OK, how exactly did I run out of these colors by printing a letter in black and white that was 5 sentences long. I had tried calling HP a while ago to make sure there was nothing wrong with it, and asked them politely what the point of the goddamn separate cartridges is if it physically prevents you from printing in black and white if you are out of any of the individual colors. At this point I refuse to buy any ink for it, and I'm just going to replace it with a b&w printer. It's fate is not looking good right now, and this damn thing is lucky I can't discharge firearms in the city. I'll bide my time until I visit home in a few weeks. This thing is dead. Note how the screen is warning me that I am out of blue and purple ink, I couldn't print a damn coupon this morning because of it.