HP Envy 4500 black and white printing

[barbara-it]

Hi, '

how can I set my HP Envy 4500 to print in black and white as a default setting?

I thought I had put it in the default settings when I installed it but it does not work.

Colour printing is mostly useless for me.

Thanks

[MissTeriLynn]

Hi barbara-it,

I understand you have an Envy 4500 and are wanting to set it to print in black ink only as a default setting. I'd be happy to help you set this up.

The steps you perform to get this setting do depend on which operating system you are working with. I am going to provide the steps for Windows 7, as it's most common, but if you have a different version of Windows, or are using Mac, just let me know and I will adjust the instructions 🙂

You will want to begin with accessing your Devices and Printers folder (via your Control Panel) and right click on your Officejet 6700 icon and select Printing Preferences. The window that opens will be similar to the screen on the left of the screen shot below. On that screen you will click the Advanced button and then you will see a screen similar to the one on the right of the screen shot. There you will select the Black Ink Only setting and press OK. Then press Apply on the previous screen before again pressing OK. The driver will now be set to use the black ink only.

Hope this helps, have a great day!!

[jo8910]

Hi MissTeriLynn

I have the opposite problem, my new HP Envy 4500 is only printing in black and white from all programs and I can not find the settings to alter or check the status - can you please help?

I have a Mac  (OSX  Version 9.2) and I have printed the test page which prints in colour??

Thanks

[MissTeriLynn]

Hi jo8910,

I understand you are having the opposite problem from above, I'm sorry to hear this, but I'd be happy to help!

Please follow the screen shot below to make sure you don't have the Black Ink Only setting enabled on your Mac. You just need to open a program, click File then Print and possibly Show Details.

Hope this helps!

[jo8910]

Hi MissTeriLynn

I can not get the detailed print options to appear on any program I open, they are limited to what is showing on the screen shot below:

When a black and white option is visable it is not highlighted, but is printing b&w in every program, everytime.

Thanks

[MissTeriLynn]

Hi jo8910,

Thanks for the reply!

Have you tried checking the settings in Text/Edit as well? If you don't have the Paper Type/Quality option there either, it's possible you have the AirPrint driver as opposed to the HP driver on the Mac. I'd suggest that you reset your printing system, and when re-adding the driver make sure that you are picking HP Envy 4500 not AirPrint as shown in the screen shot below for the Photosmart 5510.

Let me know how this goes!

[jo8910]

Hi MissTeriLynn

I just couldn't find all the the settings and was getting very fustrated - so I deleted the printer and re-installed it and it is now printing colour again 🙂

Hopefully it stays working - thanks for your  suggestions

Jo8910

[appellativo]

I can't seem to find out how to print in black and white only on my HP Envy 4500. I looked on this forum and followed a solution, but it still did not work. I have windows vista.

I went to control panel, printers, hp envy 4500 and right clicked, print preferences, paper quality tab, clicked advanced, selected print in black and white only, clicked ok, apply, ok etc. My picture printed in color. I went back and made sure it still said print in black and white only, which it did, and it is still printing in color. I am extremely frustrated, can someone help? I want to be able to easily and quickly toggle back and forth between color and black and white. Thanks.

[appellativo]

WITHOUT having to remove and replace the color cartridge constantly 😉

[MissTeriLynn]

Hi appellativo,

Welcome to the thread 🙂

Certain programs seem to be able to over ride the settings in the driver, so with the program you're using, you may have to put the settings in for each print job. To do this, you would open the file you want to print in the program you want to print it from, click File and then Print. In the Print Dialogue box there should be a Preferences (maybe labeled Properties as well) and then do the same thing you did in the driver to set black ink only and see if that works any better.

Let me know how things go!