can I modify default print "Presets"

Yes, by selecting Save As from the Presets drop down menu.

As far as I know it will not default to your desired preset. What you observe is the same behavior I've observed for any version of OS X.

The "Save Presets" thing has been broken since 10.5 rolled out. There's always discussion going on here about how it used to work and now it doesn't, it's pretty...sad...

I know myself and a bunch of other people have filed bug reports for I'm not sure how long, at least half a year now, and nothing has been done about this. It's in the grand scheme of things a minor bug...but to my wife, it's a -seriously annoying bug- because she likes to print photos on 4x6 paper and would not be able to set the preset to remain on 4x6 borderless. I'm hoping this either gets fixed with the next 10.5.x update or even 10.6.

Yes you can! Hold down the Option key when selecting the Print button and the current Preset will become the default for all apps.

Hello, Can someone help me find the option on the Printer dialogue box to set up a alternate presets besides "standard" (low quality or in Black and White). I don't get this option when I hit the arrow next to the printer drop down box. The only choices I get is to select number of pages to print or orientation when I select print set up. Thanks

Use a web browser to access the web interface for the printing system. Go to http://127.0.0.1:631/printers and find your printer. Click on the button *Set Printer Options*. You should select grayscale printing option that you want to make default. Be sure to click the *Set Printer Options* button when you are done. You will have to supply your administrator's short user name and password.

Matt

Hello doogles,

If your Ricoh is a PostScript device and therefore uses a PPD, you could modify the PPD so that b&w was the default rather than color (which I believe is what you were actually asking about).

Below is some information I have used for our previous Canon iRC3200 which used an imagePASS (Fiery) C1.

1. Open the PPD in a text editor of some sort.
2. Go to the section describing:

*OpenGroup: FPColorWise1/ColorWise1
*%EFIFlags *EFColorMode Spooler|Command|Column|Setup|Rerip
*%EFIGroup *EFColorMode FPColorWise/ColorWise
*OpenUI *EFColorMode/Color Mode :PickOne
*OrderDependency: 12.0 AnySetup *EFColorMode
**DefaultEFColorMode: EFColorModeDEF*
*EFColorMode EFColorModeDEF/Printer's default: ""
*EFColorMode CMYK/CMYK: " userdict /XJXsetcolormode known
{ (CMYK) XJXsetcolormode } if "
*End
*EFColorMode GRAY/Grayscale: " userdict /XJXsetcolormode known
{ (Grayscale) XJXsetcolormode } if "
*End
*?EFColorMode: " currentpagedevice /ProcessColorModel get == } if "
*CloseUI: *EFColorMode
*CloseGroup: FPColorWise1


This is the section in the PPD that relates to the Color Mode and what options that will be displayed in the properties of the driver.


3. Change this section to this:

*%EFIFlags *EFColorMode Spooler|Command|Column|Setup|Rerip
*%EFIGroup *EFColorMode Color/Color
*OpenUI *EFColorMode/Color Mode :PickOne
*OrderDependency: 12.0 AnySetup *EFColorMode
**DefaultEFColorMode: GRAY*
*EFColorMode EFColorModeDEF/Printer's default: ""
*EFColorMode GRAY/Grayscale: " userdict /XJXsetcolormode known
{ (Grayscale) XJXsetcolormode } if "
*End
*?EFColorMode: " currentpagedevice /ProcessColorModel get == } if "
*CloseUI: *EFColorMode



The changes to the original ppd are setting the "DefaultEFColourMode" to "Grayscale" and removing the "EFColorMode CMYK..." entry.

4. With the changes made to the ppd, create a new printer but point to the modified PPD.


If the Ricoh uses a proprietary printer language rather than PostScript, then it may not be possible to change.

However, if the machine also supports PCL6, you could create another printer queue to the Ricoh and select the Generic PCL6 driver included with OS X. You could then call this queue B&W and have this set as the default printer. Then, if the user wants to print color, they simply select the current Ricoh driver.

Note that the Generic drivers have limitations regarding finishing and don't support some larger paper sizes, such as A3. But if these are not required, then it may prove an easy alternative to modifying the PPD.

PaHu

The method Matt suggested worked for me with my Xerox 6110 and MacBook Air running OS X 10.5.7

Thanks

Hi MrsMac2, thanks for the reply but this doesn't work for me. I see the "Save As" option fine but my problem is that I can't even get the printer options so I can create various print modes like, "draft", "black and white" only, etc. I used to be able to do this on my G4 but can't find that option on this OSX 10.5.6.

This worked for me in trying to get my printer to always default to Duplex printing.