The options for printing in black and white in OS X may be a bit hard to find, so here are some approaches to printing and converting documents to grayscale.

If you print in black and white, your printer will often use what's called grayscale printing to approximate the light and dark aspects of images using various shades of gray.

Reset your printer to its default settings and then set the print mode to "Grayscale." This will allow the printer to use the color ink to print in shades of gray.

To make your Mac print in black and white for all future documents, you can add and apply a new printing preset that specifies grayscale as the default printing color.

Under a new licensing agreement, EFI will have the exclusive rights to 50 shades of grayscale in inkjet technology. The company expects to debut its first product from the agreement at the drupa ...

So often, we use colored ink unnecessarily to print images, when in actuality grayscale images will suffice or we are only interested in text.