[Macpartners] Microsoft word on the mac

[Roger A. Roach]

Karen,

I think I know what you are trying to do.  I had to do something 
similar myself.  What I did was to use the printer dialogue box to 
change the "Color Options" to "Print Color as Gray" and then save the 
preset settings as "New Standard" (or whatever but you can't save as 
"Standard").  It will stay that way until the user chooses a new preset 
setting.  Will that work for you?

Roger

On Aug 3, 2004, at 6:19 PM, Karen Johnson wrote:

> Hi,
>
> the printer is an HP 4600 (color) with 3 trays. Most of the machines 
> that connect to it are macs (g4, OS X.2, Office X)
>
>  Let's just consider word documents.
>
> 98 out of 100 docs should be printed in black and white. The users 
> have asked me to have Word default to b/w printing. There is a setting 
> in word named standard. It will not let me modify it. Okay, I make 
> another setting called 'standard b/w'. I test it and it works. It 
> prints b/w. But I have not found a way to change it to the default 
> setting. So it is no better than a user selecting color options --> 
> 'print color as grey' each and every time. In summary, I cannot modify 
> nor delete the standard setting and I cannot make a new setting the 
> default. I am assuming I just don't know how.
>
> Does anyone know how to accomplish this?
>
> (I was told of a way to set the printer to print black and white as a 
> default but there is no way to do it. The options are just not there, 
> not in the control panel, configurations,or preferences. It is not 
> there.)
>
> thank you,
>
> karen
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