So this is not truly "solved" in the sense that you can have your printer naturally default to black only... you have to literally check this option every time. Which you think may be a non issue if you're only printing black text, but SURPRISE, even though that may be true, you'll find that you are ALSO using your costly COLOR cartridge, something these printers do to cause you to buy more color ink, even though you may have never made a color copy of ANYthing. I find that Canon is not as fast and loose as many printer manufacturers out there... ones that will literally make you buy ink if you own their printers, by "updating" software automatically, so your old ink, which is still ink, viable and usable, and IN your machine, but is no longer usable after the "update"... CANON does not do that, which is why they have my business, but I think it's also important to call out other things like this, when in the past it was an option, at some point a bean counter said, "hey! if we remove "X" then "Y" will rise +X/Y% and the stockholders will ___!" And so it becomes a non-option and you find yourself buying color ink to print black text. (Unless you figure out a way to outsmart the printer).
