Changing Permanent Default Print Settings

Hello All,
A few months ago, I somehow managed to change my print settings permanently to B&W. I know it wasn't just changed to grayscale through the print menu when I try to print a document. I have a Canon MP470 and am running Leopard OS X. I remember having to go through lots of layers of menus to get it to do this, I just don't remember how I got there.
A page somewhere on the internet showed step by step how to do this. I can no longer find it. I know my printer still prints color as it will still make color copies using the copy machine function.
Does anybody have any idea how to undo this?
Thanks for your help!

The location of the grayscale setting would depend on which driver you are currently using. There are two Canon provided drivers, a v6.9.3 and a v10.1.2 'CUPS' driver. There is also a Gutenprint offering and there is also PrintFab.
If you open System Preferences > Print & Fax and select the MP470 in the Printers list, you can check the version of driver you have by selecting the Options & Supplies and looking at the General tab.
For the v6.9.3 driver, the Grayscale Printing setting is located under the Quality & Media menu. If you selected this and then made a Preset, then that would give you a default b&w option.
But your post suggests that you changed more than this so I'm not sure what you would have done differently to the above. There is no function to default the printer to b&w via the machine control panel.
If you want to keep your locked b&w driver you could add another printer queue using the same version driver or the other version driver.
Or if you want to remove the current b&w driver, then you could reset the printing system and then add a new printer queue.
PaHu

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