How to print in black & white?

[PedoJuco]

Okay, I think this print window is pretty standard regardless of which app you're using...

So go to Print and a window will pop up.
Go to the drop down menu labeled, "Copies & Pages."

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Then select, "Paper Type/ Quality."
Then under Paper> Color: select "Grayscale."

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Hope that helps.

BIG THANKS! I'm new to the Mac and this type of posts make my life easier. Thank You Thank You Thank You

 

[spidey3]

Note: If your goal is to save your color print cartridge, and only use the black one, just printing in greyscale might not do the job.

Depending on the printer, you may also need to select Paper Type/Quality -> Color Options -> Black/gray photo cartridge only (see attachment).

 

[freeworld23]

How to Print Black and White?

If you making B&W prints with an inkjet printer, it requires some finessing in order to get those prints that live up to the hype of “glorious black & white.” Well, the best way to “process” a B&W image is to use the “grayscale” setting in your image processing program (Photoshop, Lightbox) and you give something up when you’re asking the color inks to approximate the gray tonalities. One of the ways to eliminate the color cast is to use specialized monochromatic ink sets. These inks, which you can easily replace your color ink cartridges with, produce shades of gray (usually 15%, 25%, 45%, 50% and 75%), plus the Black. This allows you to end up with prints that have extremely smooth tonalities and, thankfully, no color cast

 

[freeworld23]

Printing Black and White

Hope this could help

 

[learnin']

Almost there...

Thanks for these tips. I changed the setting in word and email sucessfully, (using the 'Paper Type/Quality" drop down, then clicking BOTH grayscale AND "use black cartridge only" in "color options". This worked for print jobs in Word and in email, but Safari is still printing in color!!!

 

[freeworld23]

Printing Black and White

If you are wondering how to print in black and white and when you print in grayscale, you get an image that contains variations of gray tones between black and white. When you choose to print, Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 sets the colors in your presentation to match your selected printer's capabilities. It depends on what you want to print it can be the presentation, handouts, notes pages, or just the outline, A layout for handouts, Orientation (portrait or landscape) for handouts, notes pages, or an outline, Header and footer options. You can simply apply different grayscale or black-and-white settings to different objects (and to the background) on the same slide. Select the object for which you want to set grayscale or black-and-white settings, and then set the properties on the View menu. Do not make a selection for your ink cartridges when you want to specify the grayscale and black-and-white settings for the background, and then set the properties on the View menu.

 

[learnin']

Still want to print in B&W

Hmmm. It's not so much that I care if it uses the color cartridge, or how it manages to create grayscale. My issue is that anything I print from Safari uses a kind of PINK color, and the setting for "fast draft" makes the thing I printed completely unreadable. I just want B&W, or grayscale, or whatever, but every setting I can find in Safari and print combos for color does not seem to change anything. I am pasting the content to word as unformatted text and managing it from there.

 

[davak]

I've updated our original article to include directions for printing from any application in grayscale for the changes in lion.

 

[Mac Goddess]

Printing black and white

Thanks everyone for answering this -new and old answers! I had my old HP printer so long that I had forgotten how to get to the grayscale option to make a new preset. The new printer now has (5) - count em - expensive cartridges to replace - so this info was really important!

 

[mfunksta]

printing b&w on 10.6.8

I can't find any of the options on my menus. It seems that for some reason my version doesn't have a b&w option, which is NUTS. It's gotta be somewhere.

Here is my main menu



Any help, greatly appreciated.

 

[queenhermione]

Thank you for keeping this going!

This helped me a lot this morning - once I had fiddled with the Cannon settings I finally found the greyscale check box - couldn't have done it without the help of the people after Mr Sarcasm as it had not been completely answered at that time. I needed it for a job application where I don't have enough time to go out and buy a colour cartridge.

My advice to future hunters - keep searching, it'll be there somewhere!

Thanks everyone for answering this -new and old answers! I had my old HP printer so long that I had forgotten how to get to the grayscale option to make a new preset. The new printer now has (5) - count em - expensive cartridges to replace - so this info was really important!