Go to the Start Orb and select Devices and Printers. Right click on your printer and select Printing Preferences. Here you should be able to select gray scale under Color and save it..
How to a change my printer default setting from color to grayscale permanently.
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How do I change my printer default setting from color to grayscale on a permanent basis. Since I mostly print in greyscale, I want this as the default and then can change manually, as needed, when I want to print in color. Thanks
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Anonymous
2010-01-23T20:43:30+00:00
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Anonymous
2015-09-03T01:55:49+00:00 This does not work in windows 10. after going to devices and printers and right clicking on the printer nothing happens. ???? Does anyone else have a solution to this using Windows 10?
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Anonymous
2012-03-18T22:23:44+00:00 I keep setting up the printing defaults to grayscale but random files especially web sites insist on printing color. Is there a one time permanent fix?
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Anonymous
2015-08-28T17:49:12+00:00 how is this done in Windows 10?
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2016-01-05T07:29:58+00:00 This worked for me:
Open the Printer folder: Windows Logo + R and the command: shell:PrintersFolder
Right-click on the printer and select Printing Preferences...
Choose your preferred color setting and click OK