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‎03-26-2019 04:02 PM

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Product: Color LaserJet MFP M477fdw
Operating System: macOS 10.13 High Sierra

I have a document in which the first page needs to be printed in full color, and the rest I would like to print in B&W/grayscale.

 

The document is a church bulletin/order of worship, and the church's logo is in color on the front. The rest of the document (booklet format, and 12 pages total) is all in black text/graphics. It is laid out in Adobe InDesign. About 30–40 copies are printed each week.

 

I've noticed that the color toner cartridges are depleting a lot faster than I would have expected, and in examination I saw that it was printing each page in "color" (even though the text itself is rendered as registration black in ID) which I assume means it is achieving the black through a composite of all 4 toners, rather than just the black one.

 

The printer is an HP Color LaserJet MFP M477fdw. One option that occurs to me is to set InDesign's color management in the printer profile to let the PostScript printer set the colors. Does anyone know if that option will achieve what I want to do? In other words: will the HP Color LaserJet distinguish the color portions from the black/grayscale parts, and optimize toner usage for each?

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