How to configure a Ricoh MP C3400 to override print settings from Microsoft Word?

[jk1995]

Hi,
The company I work for uses a lot of default templates that begin with things like "Letter to Client - John Doe august 24th", ex. "{constant} - {nonConstant}.docx" - my boss was asking if there was a way for Word to recognize these templates and to default print these templates in B&W. I researched this and found that this seems like it's only possible with a VBA script, which would change our document types to .docm (from .docx). This unfortunately would be incompatible with our CMS. Then I started wondering if there's a way that the printer itself could override Word's printer settings for these templates. I'm wondering if anyone here knows if this is possible with the Ricoh? Or if it's actually possible in word without VBA and I missed something?

Thanks for any help!

[slimslob]

If the problem is that the templates have color and your boss doesn't want to pay for color when you do not need color, why not just change the templates? Another option might be to use Print Driver Packager NX to create a B/W driver or just use a B/W driver.

[tonerhead]

How about going into the printer properties of the print driver and setting default to b/w?

[jk1995]

If the problem is that the templates have color and your boss doesn't want to pay for color when you do not need color, why not just change the templates? Another option might be to use Print Driver Packager NX to create a B/W driver or just use a B/W driver.

The number of templates we would have to change in our CMS would make this a brutal endeavor, but I will bring this up to him.

[jk1995]

How about going into the printer properties of the print driver and setting default to b/w?

I've already suggested this to him and am waiting on a reply back - this was my thought as well.