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Printing TRUE Greyscale (grayscale) on my IP8700

theWoosh
Apprentice

Hi 

I have a Pixma IP8700 and I use it to print photos. I am working with some old black & white photos at the moment and would like to force the printer to printer using only the Black (BK) & Grey(GY) (dye) inks so I can see what a print looks like without the cyan, yellow & magenta dots all over it.

How can I do this? I am using both Windows 10 & OS X Yosemite...

 

PS I can see online how to force the printer to use the black pigment ink only (by setting the paper to plain), but this is not what I want as printing with the pigment only (PGBK) is very coarse.

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jrhoffman75
Legend
Legend

Monochrome printing (not black only) uses color inks along with black and grey. There is no seting to disable this.

John Hoffman
Conway, NH

1D X Mark III, Many lenses, Pixma PRO-100, Pixma TR8620a, LR Classic
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