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Help Dear Mac Users!
Because Apple Support isn't helping and our IT guy isn't helping AND the printer guys aren't helping.
(Although let it be known that one of our vice presidents is two seconds away from telling the IT guy and the printer guy to sit their asses down and figure it out.)
We are testing a BizHub (color/b&w printer/copier). We have Macs. (I have a PC, so in this instance I'm okay.) When Mac OS X was put into place, a problem arose. The default printing specifications for the BizHub are color. Of course, we don't want the default to be color. We want it to be black and white. 99.99999% of businesses will want it to be black and white. On my PC I can go into the Printers and Faxes control and change the default to black and white. Unfortunately, when Mac went from OS 9 to OS X, they took away the same feature on the Macs. I can set up a black and white preset, but there's no way (that I've been able to find) to change the system default.
(The reason this is a problem - people are lazy. Hell, I'm lazy. If I want to print something, I want to hit Control P, OK. I don't want to have to hit Control P, change the preset to BlackWhite, then click OK. Yeah, it looks like one simple step will be nothing, but people are lazy. That one extra step that they've never had to do before is too much. More importantly, since we will be leasing the machine, the difference is 1.5 cents per copy for black and white versus 7.5 cents per copy for color. We don't want any mistaken color printing!)
Because Apple Support isn't helping and our IT guy isn't helping AND the printer guys aren't helping.
(Although let it be known that one of our vice presidents is two seconds away from telling the IT guy and the printer guy to sit their asses down and figure it out.)
We are testing a BizHub (color/b&w printer/copier). We have Macs. (I have a PC, so in this instance I'm okay.) When Mac OS X was put into place, a problem arose. The default printing specifications for the BizHub are color. Of course, we don't want the default to be color. We want it to be black and white. 99.99999% of businesses will want it to be black and white. On my PC I can go into the Printers and Faxes control and change the default to black and white. Unfortunately, when Mac went from OS 9 to OS X, they took away the same feature on the Macs. I can set up a black and white preset, but there's no way (that I've been able to find) to change the system default.
(The reason this is a problem - people are lazy. Hell, I'm lazy. If I want to print something, I want to hit Control P, OK. I don't want to have to hit Control P, change the preset to BlackWhite, then click OK. Yeah, it looks like one simple step will be nothing, but people are lazy. That one extra step that they've never had to do before is too much. More importantly, since we will be leasing the machine, the difference is 1.5 cents per copy for black and white versus 7.5 cents per copy for color. We don't want any mistaken color printing!)
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