How to tell the printer to print grayscale or colored content

Question

I have this line of codes that will tell the printer to print a document. But it will only print colored content.

word = Dispatch("Word.Application")
word.Documents.Open(self.filePath)
word.ActiveDocument.PrintOut()
word.ActiveDocument.Close()
word.Quit()

What I want is to tell the printer to print grayscale content. Is there any possible solution for this?

paulsm4 · Answer 1 · 2019-02-01T02:48:01.580

Q: How to tell the printer to print grayscale or colored content?

Short Answer::

You have to talk to the relevant printer driver, which is completely platform- and API-specific.
Longer Answer:

The snippet you showed, word = Dispatch("Word.Application"), is using a Python wrapper to Microsoft Com/ActiveX. Specifically, to the MS-Word COM/ActiveX component (which was presumably registered on your PC when you installed MS-Word).

So all you have to do is look at the options provided by "Word.Application":

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/vba/api/word.application.printout

Be advised, you might also have to play around with "Printer Device Settings", for example:

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