This is not unique to Epson, so if you go out an buy an HP thinking you'll be safe... do your research first. I have an HP Officejet 6700 Premium right behind

This is not unique to Epson, so if you go out an buy an HP thinking you'll be safe... do your research first. I have an HP Officejet 6700 Premium right behind me that works the exact same way. If I run out of Magenta, it won't even print in black. I've been thinking of trying to find a way to inject some water or something into the empty cartridges to trick it. The strange thing is - I almost never print in color, yet somehow, I run out of color ink. I don't get it. And it's costing me way more than I want to spend to print.