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How do I set my printer to print ONLY black and white?

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Maynerd

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Holy smokes I don't know why this is so hard to figure out. I have an HP C3180 printer and it prints color. I don't want to use up the color cartridge. I only want to print black and white printouts. How do I set this on my mac?

HELP!
 
Man I wish I could really help you out with this but I'm in the same boat as you.
I can tell you this though, you have to do it from Print Set Up on you computer.
I know this is absolutely no help but I noticed no one has replied yet.
 
File>Print>Paper Type/Quality>Color>Grayscale

Not sure if there's a permanent setting for this like there is in Windows. I use a draft quality, grayscale setting on my suck*** windows 98 machine and HP inkjet printers at work.

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iSaint said:
File>Print>Paper Type/Quality>Color>Grayscale

Not sure if there's a permanent setting for this like there is in Windows. I use a draft quality, grayscale setting on my suck*** windows 98 machine and HP inkjet printers at work.

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Yes I just figured this out. You can save a preference and just choose that every time you print. One extra click I guess. It would be nice if you could set a global default for it though.
 
Odd, when I tried to print, I don't get the Type/Quality option.
 

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phungy said:
Odd, when I tried to print, I don't get the Type/Quality option.
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You need to go to the pulldown for copies&pages then choose paper type/quality and I found it there. You can then save a setting and choose it from the first screen in the future.
 
phungy said:
Odd, when I tried to print, I don't get the Type/Quality option.
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Click your copies and pages, then adjust from there. This has worked for my Canon printers and as far as my Epson I think the printer has a few options that Canon doesn't (I think 😎 ) but not sure.
 
For some HP printers you can simply remove the color cartridge, close the cartridge latch (if any) and the printer will adjust accordingly.
 
Maynerd said:
You need to go to the pulldown for copies&pages then choose paper type/quality and I found it there. You can then save a setting and choose it from the first screen in the future.
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True. Once you have changed settings, select Presets for an option to save as a newly named preset.
 
print b/w default

I am new to this
but would really like to know how to set my printer to grayscale as a global setting for all users the printer is hp3180 on imac os10.5.2
am getting tired of buying expensive color
thanx
dwbro124@comcast.net
 
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