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How to control if Print Anywhere documents should come out in color or black

When you submit a document to the Printix Anywhere printer, your document is always kept for later release through your phone, tablet, or computer.

  • On Windows, the document is sent as PDF and processed using the Microsoft Print to PDF print driver.

  • On Mac, the document is sent as PostScript using the Generic PostScript Printer print driver.

The Microsoft Print to PDF print driver supports selection of paper size and orientation, but it does not support color control. The resulting PDF file will in most cases be in color. However, the application you use to print may offer color control, and if so, this will take effect as normal. Here are some examples:

  • Microsoft Word

    Offers no color control. Resulting PDF is always in color.

  • Microsoft PowerPoint

    Offers you to select between: "Color", "Grayscale", and "Pure Black and White."

  • Microsoft Edge Browser

    Offers you to select between: "Color" and "Black and White."

  • Chrome Browser

    Offers you to select between: "Color" and "Black and White."

  • Adobe Acrobat Reader

    Offers you to check: "Print in grayscale (black and white)."

After a color document has been saved as a grayscale PDF or a black and white PDF, it cannot be converted back to color. However, other ways also exist to get, for example, a Microsoft Word color document out in black and white:

  • Release the document on a printer that does not support color.

  • For a color printer, make a print queue that has a print driver configuration that prints in black by default. If the printer supports PDF printing, then make sure that Process PDF/XPS is selected, so the PDF document is processed using a matching print driver and its print driver configuration.

If you define both a black and a color print queue, that is, multiple print queues exist for this printer, Printix App prompts you to select one. You will not be asked if only one of these print queues is marked as "favorite" . If you are using Printix Go and releasing the document from the printer's touchscreen control panel, then it will just select one of the print queues without asking.

Printix Client will, when required the first time, automatically download, and use the latest version of the PostScript to PDF conversion component (PS2PDF.dll). The component install in the folder:

  • C:\Program Files\printix.net\Printix Client\ps

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