Black and white printing with a mac

I recently switched from a Dell Windows PC to an iMac with OS 10.9. I am using my old HP 6500e 710a Officejet All in One.
I typically print most of my documents in black and white which was available on the Windows 7 driver version.
On the iMac OS 10.9 driver version, I can only print in black and white in "draft" mode.
Based on another posting I saw on this forum, the drop down menu for another HP printer (I think 8300) had the feature to select B&W printing in any quality. Also, it had "grayscale" selectable.
I appears that my driver version V2.4.0-2 does not have the full compliment of options. HP needs to update this OS 10.9 driver.
Can anyone HELP!
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happytohelp01,
I received a response from HP Support pointing me to the following Apple software driver on the Apple support website; HP Printer Drivers v.2.16.1 for OS X. 
It was at "http://support.apple.com/kb/dl907".   Once I loaded it, I was given the following instructions:
Step 3: Change print settings
1. Open the document that you want to print
2. Click on File  and then Print
3. Make sure the correct printer name is selected.
4. Below the Orientation option, there is drop-down menu. Select Paper type/Quality (Refer to the attached screenshot)
5. Click on Color Options.
6. Select Greyscale under Color
7. Click on Print.
You can create a Preset using the below steps so that you do not have to change the settings every time you print.
1. Click on Presets menu
2. Click on Create new Preset
3. Assign a preset name
4. Confirm to create the preset.
Next time, you can select this preset name to get the settings that you have made.
This allowed me to print in B&W at Normal quality.

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