Comment 16 for bug 235399

So glad I found you folks. I don't understand a lot of the technical talk, but its been making me crazy that my color cartridge is getting lower when I haven't even been using color (so I thought). I have HP Photosmart 8050, I print from Wordperfect, or emails, or Adobe documents. I use the print option under properties called "color", print in Greyscale, black ink only. Not sure that this plan is truly working, and am ready to yank the color cartridge out so I can save it for when I want to print photos.
Any direct advice would be truly appreciated (but keep it simple...)