I have always had a conspiracy theory that the ink management requirements are set by national security input. All printers have a yellow dot pattern added to every print to identify the printer by a forensics team. I wonder if this is why the ink landscape is so shifty. They want to make sure those dots get printed. My thought on why you can’t print black and white when you are only missing colored ink.

When its cold the traps are more likely to dry out. Run some water through the faucets to refill them. Its basically standing water that fills the tube so gasses can not go in and out.

This is what a trap looks like. They are ment to have a small amount of water retained to fill the pipe.

Also running a couple of pichers of water down your basement drain can help if it is coming from there.

Titus

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