Canon print driver: how to print pure black only

We love our MP610 printer. But on Mac OS 10.5.8 Leopard we cannot figure out how to print black-only using the big cartridge. We've been using grayscale, but this does not give true blacks, and we suspect is using color ink + the small black cartidge.
Our goal is simply to conserve the expensive color cartridges, only using color when it is needed.
Any advice would be appreciated.

Judging by my Canon printer, the large black cartridge is for solid black only: it doesn't do grayscale. As you've found, grayscale is handled by the colour set. 'Solid black' would apply to text and objects such as lines and rectangles where the colour has been set to full black, not to black within colour or grayscale images.

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