CP1518ni - no draft mode for printing color?

I am trying to print a color PDF flyer.  I want to print low quality color flyers that dont use a lot of ink and print quickly. I have windows vista.  Under properties thepaper quality tab the only option under print quality is 'imageREt3600'  Right below is another drop down HP real life technologies with three options 'RLT photo fix "off"',    the other two are basic photo fix and full photo fix.
Yesterday I thought I had it figured out.  I went to the color tab and clicked on the drop down box Color themes RGB color and put none.  (the other options are default, vivid, photo, and adobe rgb 1998.  I played around with some other things - dont remember and thought that the papers were printing out fast.  I ran out of ink and bought more today.  Now the pages are printing out slowly one at a time. 
Help.

Today eprint does not support fastdraft mode printing via email. If you want to save ink you can print in GREYSCALE mode  by setting the color attribute in the eprintcenter portal.

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