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Well, the scam artists have it down to a fine science.  Seems that
all new printers, except one brand, now require you to have color ink
cartridges with color ink in them inorder to print "black ink only." 
They are also,now running their own clean and check runs which suck
the ink out of the cartridges which means even if you don't use the
colored in and only print in "black ink only" that you will have to
routinely replace the color cartridges.  Actually, relatively
frequently, say every 3 months or sooner!

Tomorrow DH is heading off to the big city (2 hours away) to pick up
a new printer.  It will be a Canon as they are the only printer out
there now that prints in black ink only if you don't have colored in
in the colored ink cartridges AND that doesn't do routine tests which
suck the ink out of the cartridges!

I've been buying HP printers since they came out back in the dark
ages (they built them in the town I lived in) and I am giving this
almost brand new one to the special ed class at the grammar school. 
They said they'd love to have it (they have the budget to keep buying
the color cartridges) because it is wireless and that way all the
kids can use the one printer.  So long HP!

Lynda