Printing in B&W on a color laser printer

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I recently purchased a Brother MFC-9420CN, running on Win XP. I'd like
to be be able to print certain web pages that use colored text in
black-and-white. But when I try changing the print settings, the
closest I get is grayscale text. Is there any way to print those
colors as pure -black-and-white? If not, does anyone know of a utility
that would convert the page to b&w before sending it to the printer?

thanks!
 
I recently purchased a Brother MFC-9420CN, running on Win XP. I'd like
to be be able to print certain web pages that use colored text in
black-and-white. But when I try changing the print settings, the
closest I get is grayscale text. Is there any way to print those
colors as pure -black-and-white? If not, does anyone know of a utility
that would convert the page to b&w before sending it to the printer?
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Photoshop can convert any standard image (e.g. JPG, TIF) from
RGB colour to B/W ("greyscale") as can most scanners and
probably most photo-editing software. Your Brother color
printer may also be able to do this in hardware settings
(printer properties.)
 
cityboy said:
I recently purchased a Brother MFC-9420CN, running on Win XP. I'd like
to be be able to print certain web pages that use colored text in
black-and-white. But when I try changing the print settings, the
closest I get is grayscale text. Is there any way to print those
colors as pure -black-and-white? If not, does anyone know of a utility
that would convert the page to b&w before sending it to the printer?
Click to expand...

I believe that "grayscale" means that the black ink is used to print in
varous shades of gray, as opposed to black and white only (as does a FAX
machine. Yoe will not get the harsh and terrible contrast characteristic
of faxes. Rather, there will be nice gradations as if it were a true
black and white photogracp.

There is another setting; "Dots" or "Newsprint"; where the image is
corasely dot-pixelated with variaos sized balck dots to simulate the
newspaper mode of "contrsst". This mode will Xero-copy and FAX better
that does grayscale.

If you are printing the final product and don't or can't want color,
the gray scale is best.

All of the above only require one good black crtridge.

Angelo Campanella.
 
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