how to print in black and white

Some printers have a B&W or Grayscale setting within the driver menus.

Also, if your printer supports the PCL printer language, there is a Generic PCL Laser printer included with OS X that will only print in B&W.

What brand and model of printer do you have?

In the Print menu see if you have these settigns

Hey Frank. The OP would only have that same setting you show if they had a HP. And there is also a chance that the setting is not present for all models of HP. So that's why I asked for the brand and model.

The Canon MX882 does not support the PCL printer language, so the Generic PCL driver is not an option.

But the Canon driver does have a Grayscale setting, located under the Quality & Media menu as shown below.

So when you are in Safari and you select to print, ensure you have selected the Show Details button. Then from the Safari menu, change to the Quality & Media menu and then select the Grayscale Printing setting.

varsitytours wrote:

i use a Canon MX 882 which does not appear to have those options in the print/fax settings...thanks

That's not the print/fax settings. What I am showing is the actual Print dialog you get when you select print from the File menu. That is when you set the options for that particular print job.

You need to look around especially under the Paper Quality settings as Pahu is showing in the screen shot he posted.

regards

I think Pahu's point was missed. I have a Canon MP495 and unlike the HP882, Paper Type/Quality is not on the dropdown, but Quality & Media is; so too grayscale.

The Safari/Print/* dropdown is Brand specific as is the grayscale setting process.

Q.E.D.

Sorry all, for HP882 in my previous read HP4300. Pity there is no edit function on this blog.😮