Printing in black and white can help you save ink and make your documents look more professional. If you’re using a Mac, you can easily print in black and white or grayscale. In this article, we’ll show you how to turn on grayscale printing and print black and white documents on a Mac.
How to Turn on Grayscale Printing on a Mac
Many printers used with Mac support printing in black and white or grayscale. Black and white printing reduces the color of an image or document to enable grayscale. Follow the steps below to turn on grayscale printing on a Mac:
1. Go to the Finder app and right-click on the image you want to print.
2. Open the image with a Preview app.
3. Click on the File option from the top left side horizontal menu bar and select Print.
4. In the Copies section, turn off the Print in Color toggle.
5. Your image preview will now be in black and white.
6. If your printer is connected to your Mac computer, click the Print button to print a black and white image.
How to Print Black and White Documents on a Mac
Now that you’ve turned on grayscale printing on your Mac, you can easily print black and white documents. Below are three different examples of how to print black and white documents on a Mac.
1. How to Print Black and White on Mac using Word
Open the document in Word and click on the printer icon from the top of the screen, or you can click on the File menu and select Print. Now tick the Black and White checkbox under the Copies section. You can see the black and white preview of your Word document. Click the Print button to print the document.
2. How to Print Black and White on Mac PDF
Open the PDF file from the Finder app and click on the File menu from the top horizontal menu bar. Towards the bottom of the menu, select Print or press the keyboard shortcut Command + P. Turn off the Print in Color toggle to print the PDF in black and white. If you want to print your document, click the Print button.
3. How to Print Google Docs in Black and White on a Mac
To print a Google Document on your Mac computer, open the document and make sure you’re using Firefox or Safari. Click File from the toolbar within Google Docs and select Print in the drop-down. The file will download to your computer as a PDF, which you can then print in the same way as the second example above.
If you’re using Safari, open the PDF file and click on the File menu from the top left side. Then select Print in the drop-down. Check the color options, turn off the Print in Color toggle, and click the Print button.
For Chrome browser, open your Google Document in Chrome. Click the File menu from the top left screen, or the document menu bar, and select Print in the drop-down. Check the color options. If it is selected as color, click on the color drop-down menu and select the Black and White option. Click the Print button to get the grayscale print of your document.
We hope you found this step-by-step guide helpful. Printing in black and white can save ink and make your documents look more professional. With these simple steps, you can easily print black and white documents on your Mac computer.