Does anyone know of a good wireless printer that allows you to set it for black print only and choose color when you want it?
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Margaret, the Lexmark X9575 can be used in B & W only or full color. Beyond that, I would say this printer has been an excellent buying choice in that it is fairly easy on ink and was reasonably priced to purchase. Quality is not super on photo printing, but that isn't why I bought it.
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Sure. Just about any inkjet color printer will allow you to set the printer properties before you print. When you hit print, look next to the printer name. It should say properties. Click on that and set your default to black/white. When you want color, just return and change the properties for that document. I can't speak for all printers, but this is how it worked for the Lexmark pictured above and all of the hp printers I have owned.
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This printer (Lexmark X9575) does have the option to print it grey scale only, and I have never had any connection problems with the wireless printing.
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Yes, The Lexmark X9575 that I bought on Amazon lets you choose just before pressing the print button.
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this printer does not use color cartridges to print B&W--; at least not by default. If you are low or out of B&W; ink the printer will ask you if you want to use the color cartridges to create black. This was a major selling point for me because I used to hate how HP printers required color to print B&W.;
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I'm not sure, do you have WiFi or a wire connection? When you press print a menu should come up for you to choose a printer.
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Yes, you can setup wireless or cabled print, as long as the printer has capability to receive wireless signals.
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Yes, you can, but I strongly advise that you don't purchase this printer. It requires you to constantly change the black and color cartridges (even if you never print color), making it the most costly printer I have ever owned.
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I believe in your print settings you can tell it to print in B&W;, but default will print however the document is set up. when you are copying you can choose B&W; or color.
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This is a strictly black-and-white printer. They key selling point is the network connection which is ethernet. As reliable and fast as this printer is, it is rather old model. You should consider this instead: Brother HL-2270DW Compact Laser Printer with Wireless Networking. That printer is also black-and-white but offers wifi which gives you more freedom on where to put it around the house or office.
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I'm not sure what you mean. If you want to use just black you need to go into properties or settings on our printer and (or computer at print) and click on black only.
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When you hit the print button and the screen comes up for preferences. You can choose to print in color or in black ink. When making a copy you can choose either the color button or black button on the panel of the printer.
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I can select the print options from my computer when I am printing a document. One of the options is to print the document in mono, or black and white. It seems to always default to color, but it only takes a moment to change.
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If you have a network set up, any computer hooked up to that can print to it w/out bring directly connected. It's been a while since I've used this printer, but I don't think it's truly wireless. (It is a great printer though, I bought several for work.)
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Well in my printer, there is a slot for picture black and plain black. Apparently, both are needed to create an effective black color. I also have a button option that says "black" and one that says "color".
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No. You just need to go to "Maintenance", select "Ink Cartridge Settings". There you could select the cartridge to be used for printing. If the empty one is color, then you choose "Black Only" (and vice versa). I hope this helps :)
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If the black is not empty, it will print in black even with one of the colors is empty. It seems all ink is expensive. Sell the printer cheap, and make your money off the ink.
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YesIf colored ink is out it will ask you if you want to print using black onlyThis is based off my printer
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Don't think it can print wirelessly, but i haven't been able to. Color quality is good. Also, used the hub switch or whatever u called it, but 2nd computer couldn't print to it.
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Yes. It only prints in black. The reason I got this is because if u print in black most of the time u use less ink versus the multi-color printers. Multi-color printer uses all colors even if u are printing in black only, therefor ink runs out quicker and its a bigger expense. Hope this helps.