Comment 15 for bug 235399

Actually, this is a pretty old bug (I have noticed that since I bought my printer 4 years ago).

For those who are still wondering, it's a cupsys/printer driver problem. As it is, it doesn't matter what options one selects at the app itself, unless they are in the print dialog through the options that cups itself provides.

For printing Color, one has to explicitly select Black cartridge only in the driver's options to use the black cartridge. Otherwise it will use simulated black even if printing pure-text with the driver selected with Color+Black cartridge.

That has forced me to change printer options for every single document I have to print since I switched to Linux. I have even considered making classes in cups to make color selection as a printer selection, but unfortunately cups won't allow changing those options in a class.