HP 2840 -- Printer driver only color

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HP 2840 -- Printer driver only color

Have new Mac Pro. My HP Laserjet 2840 driver does not allow printing in grey scale (black and white) thus stuck at 4 ppm instead of 20 ppm and am burning through ink in all 4 cartridges instead of just one. Any get around this?

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.5), Printer HP 2840

Posted on Dec 7, 2008 4:50 AM

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Answer 1

Dec 7, 2008 4:55 AM in response to Tony Righellis

My present HP inkjet uses the black cartridge for black print and drawing only, greyscale being handled by the colour cartridge (this was a change from earlier models): so I expect you will find your laser printer uses the same technique and it's unlikely you will be able to change it using HP's driver. You could have a look for third-party drivers which might be able to fiddle the settings, but it's quite probable that the black cartridge is simply physically not designed to produce greys.

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Answer 2

Dec 24, 2008 1:36 AM in response to Tony Righellis

I have the same printer HP2840 and would also like the black and white driver like I have on my Win machine, but don't have for Mac. Did you find it yet?

Also, I recently am having a problem where Mac cannot find the HP 2840 and in the print job status it just says looking for printer. It worked fine for a few months and now i can't print on it. any ideas?

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