Printing in B&W with HP CM2320 MFP.

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Printing in B&W with HP CM2320 MFP.

So we recently purchased an HP CM2320 (Color All-in-one printer) to do occasional color printing. The majority of the time, we want to print in black and white only, using the black cartridge. Our Windows computers seem to do this just fine, but our Ubuntu and OS X (10.5.6) computers aren't able to. I can't find any color settings in the Print & Fax menu under system configuration. Firefox has some color print settings, which are largely (if not totally) ineffective at changing how pages are printed. Is there a way to print in B&W only with Leopard to this printer?

Thanks for any help you can offer.
-matthaus

iMac &&/|| MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on Apr 17, 2009 1:53 PM

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Apr 17, 2009 3:49 PM in response to Matthaus

Matthaus,

Welcome to the forums! As D said in this thread: http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=9165237#9165237

"You can print in grayscale from an HP print dialog box. I don't have the same printer but the options should be similar. Click the Triangle beside the Printer dropdown menu (if the printer options are not showing.) This should expand the dialog. There should be a dropdown that says Firefox, click it and select Paper Type/Quality. The first tab should be Paper. Select the dropdown for Color and select Grayscale.

If the above isn't the same as yours, there still should be the preference somewhere in the Printer Options. Hopefully, that will work for you.

D. "

Or You could always: Go to print like you normally would but instead of hitting print click on the (PDF) button near the bottom. From the list it show select (Save as PDF...). Now I would save it to the desktop for easier finding. From there open it in (Preview) and do a quick (Save As). In the little window that opens you will see a (Quartz Filter:) select (Gray Tone) from the drop down list. Click save and then print the gray toned PDF you just made.

Hope that helps,
Weston

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Matthaus Author

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Apr 17, 2009 4:01 PM in response to westongallagher

Thanks for the welcome. And for the tip/quote, that helps a lot. But I don't see a way to set that as a global default for the printer. Is there a way to do that? Otherwise, every time I print a document, I have to change that setting to print color as gray. Also, do you know if printing color as gray is using the black cartridge or the color ones?

Thanks again,
-matthaus

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Apr 17, 2009 4:08 PM in response to westongallagher

Okay. I figured it out. Knowing that the Grayscale was the ticket was very helpful. I just went into the CUPS manager (http://localhost:631) and changed it there. And that changed the global settings. Marvelous. Thanks for leading me in the right direction.

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