From: metspitzer on
On Mar 10, 4:52 pm, Mike Easter <Mi...(a)ster.invalid> wrote:
> Matty wrote:
> > I've always used a black & white printer but recently I got a Canon MP560
> > color printer.
>
> > How can I make it print color pages in black & white?
>
> > Surely there must be an option in the Printer Properties but I can't see
> > it!
>
> Canon provides a ton of documentation with their printers and online.
>
> Here's a page with access to a 16 meg onscreen helpfile
>
> http://snipr.com/urcj6 PIXMA MP560 - High-Performance Wireless Photo
> All-In-One with 2.0" LCD- MP560 series On-screen Manual (Windows 7/7
> x64/Vista/Vista64/XP/XP x64/2000) mp560sosmwin110us.exe
>
> That printer has a lot of features besides b&w vs color printing.  You
> should probably review a number of manual pages.
>
> --
> Mike Easter

I tried this one time on my MP 780. I am told that when you print in
black and white that this still caused the printer to use color ink.
They use colors to print different shades of gray.

They mainly do it though because they want to sell you ink at 20 x the
price of oil.