My company has set the default for all of our printer drivers to “Print In Grayscale”.
This forces us to change the Printer Properties for almost every print job and eliminates the ability to Right-Click/Print color PDF’s, etc. This will supposedly save money on toner, regardless of the fact that it costs money in time and paper when employees forget to uncheck the box before printing out a 30 page document.
We cannot add printers or change most default settings on our systems. We most certainly do not have admin rights to our systems. In addition, every Friday night (at a minimum) our systems are remotely rebooted, refreshed, etc.
Does anyone know of a “global work-around” to alter the printer driver, even if if it has to be done after every log in? Perhaps a command line entry or something like that? We do have access to the command window via cmd, but we can only do things that don’t require admin rights.
Any suggestions would be most welcome.
message edited by DerbyDad03
As it turned out a co-worker tried something simple and it seems to have worked. They refresh our machines every weekend and the change we tried seems to have held after this weekend’s refresh. It’s hard to believe that was this easy:
Start
Devices and Printers
Right Click the Printer name
Choose Printing Preferences
Uncheck the Print in Grayscale box
That is the same box that we were essentially told would need to be unchecked every time when trying to print individual documents in color. e.g. File…Print…Printer Properties…Color Tab…Uncheck the Print in Grayscale box. Apparently if it is done through the Start menu, as opposed to through the individual app, it hold across all apps and even after a reboot/corporate refresh.
Shhhhh…don’t tell them that we found that setting.
Thanks for all the suggestions.
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