When you invoke the print dialog window by pressing Command-P in a document, click the Show Details button and then click the menu under the page orientation settings. For more generic printer drivers there may be no options like this.īecause these device-specific options are present in a number of printer drivers (especially on color printers), first check the device-specific settings to see if one exists for your system. For instance, my Brother MFC color printer has a Print Settings option to change the color to 'Mono' so only black toner is used however, my Xerox Phaser's options are a bit more obscurely hidden in its Image Quality option, where the black-and-white option is available as a 'Color Correction' setting. Some printer drivers support grayscale options, but these depend on the device being used and may not be obvious or may not be available.

The print options menu will have application settings (1), generic print settings (2), device-specific settings (3), and device status settings (4).

You can certainly still print in grayscale and there are various ways to do it, although some of these options might be a bit obscure, may only be available on some systems, or might require a few extra steps. If you need to print in black and white in OS X, you can, but it may not be obvious how to do it.Īpple used to include an obvious setting in its print dialog boxes for color or black and white, but in OS X this has disappeared since these options are now handled by the specific driver for your printer.

Mac photo preview settings