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By Anna Medlin on Feb. 04, 2008

Hhaha - well, Leopard seems to have done away with this! Here is the round-about way of doing this:

1) Go to Print menu
2) Save as PDF
3) Set the quartz filter THERE to save as black and white
4) Save PDF
5) Open PDF in preview
6) Print in black and white.

At least it works!

By an anonymous user on Mar. 29, 2008

Another thing that you can do is to set up a monochrome printer by adding another printer that is identical to your color printer, calling it, say, HP - Monochrome. Then go to the ColorSync utility, and associate the generic grayscale or generic B/W profiles to that printer. After that, whenever you use the HP - Monochrome printer, it will print in graycale or B/W, depending on which profile you selected in ColorSync.

This works for me - it hope it will help you.

By an anonymous user on Apr. 20, 2008

In the print menu, use the 'preview' dropdown, select the option saying 'paper type/quality', under that set the colour to 'greyscale' and click print.

By an anonymous user on Jul. 02, 2008

Are you kidding me? There's no black and white printing? Jesus, God, holy mother of christ, what a stupid move!!!!

By Jesse Babson on Jul. 02, 2008

Yeah - you would think they've have that in there! Sure as shit no!

By an anonymous user on Sep. 23, 2008

its still there - just not in the same context. in preview - choose save as ... you then have a dropdown for quartz filter and can go black and white .... horray!

By an anonymous user on Oct. 30, 2008

Hey MacFriends: I have spent the better part of today working on this problem. I think I have it figured out.

First of all this problem is definitely printer dependent because each print driver and utility is different. My first suggestion is to be sure to update your print driver for Mac OS X 10.5. I went to the HP.com website and downloaded the newly updated driver especially for Leopard ( I have an HP C4280 printer).

Next, I installed the new driver and rebooted my Mac. The new print driver has some new tabs and options. Here is what I did: File>Print>Paper Type/Quality(located in the pull down menu under Orientation and Scaling). Here, I now have three new tabs labelled: Paper; Color Option; Ink. Under the Paper tab, choose Color:Grey Scale. Under the Color Option tab, choose: Black Print Cartridge Only. Under the Ink tab, slide the arrow left toward light one line/bar (this will save us up to 33% ink). Then go back up to the Presets pulldown menu near the top of the page and choose Save or SaveAs and give it a useful name (Black/White/Grey). Give it a try and let us know. [The reply Sorkvild posted above only worked for the saved PDF, but did not change my default settings.]

By an anonymous user on Nov. 03, 2008

I have the same problem but when I tried using the quartz filter on an older Mac at work the printer still considered it to be a color copy when accounting which defeats the purpose for us since a b/w-printout costs about 1/10th of a color printout (toner and service cost).

I hope that an updated driver from my printer vendor will allow me to print in black and white (or rather, gray scale).

By Seth Berman on Jan. 06, 2009

Had a great answer, had to join this forum, and it got deleted... Can somebody fix this?

Pretty easy to solve this issue, and much easier way than in this forum!

OK, you should know, but I'm pissed... So this forum gets the short version...

If you select print in any program, a small popup appears. next to the printer name, there is an arrow. Click this.

Now, you get a bigger popup, this has all your print options, somewhere, there will be a dropdown, with horizonal lines on either side. This is the money maker... Select "Paper Type / Quality" now you can go to the "Color:" option, and choose gray scale.

Hope this helps you all, I have a HP J6480, and all programs seem to have this option...