Mac MS Word

[iliketui]

My knowledge with MAC OS is very limited but am slowly picking things up.

I have a customer using MAC OS 10.9.5 who is able to print. The customer has a Sharp MX-C301W. They have the driver installed twice, once for colour and once for black and white with B/W as default.

The customer has a colour document which they want to print in B/W which works fine when they go File -> Print, but this customer wants to be lazy and hit the quick print button which prints any document in colour.

So my question is how do I set the quick print button to print in B/W?

I have done some quick research and found a procedure on setting the printing defaults to B/W through CUPS, but this hasn't made a difference.

Another thing that frustrated me on multiple PC's was when i went File -> Print -> Presets -> Show Presets, the next window had a list of Current settings, Default settings and Last Used settings. It showed the current settings OK but when i selected Default settings or Last Used settings the application (Word or Safari) would crash.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

[habik]

Re: Mac MS Word

System Preferences > Print&scanner > Default Printer (not last printer used) check the one where you have BW driver installed. Thats it.

[iliketui]

Re: Mac MS Word

Hi,

I don't know Sharp devices but with Ricoh devices this works very well (PostScript commands for paper trays, duplex, staple and other features are the same on b/w and color devices): Is there a similar black/white device at Sharp? Use this driver for b/w printing.

I haven't tried using another models driver. Will give it a go.

System Preferences > Print&scanner > Default Printer (not last printer used) check the one where you have BW driver installed. Thats it.

When the customer selects file -> print, it is already on default printer.

Just to confirm, is last used printer different to last settings used?

[iliketui]

Re: Mac MS Word

Hi,

I don't know Sharp devices but with Ricoh devices this works very well (PostScript commands for paper trays, duplex, staple and other features are the same on b/w and color devices): Is there a similar black/white device at Sharp? Use this driver for b/w printing.

This has worked.

System Preferences > Print&scanner > Default Printer (not last printer used) check the one where you have BW driver installed. Thats it.

I confirmed that the original B/W setup was the default printer, but was still printing in colour when the quick print button was used.