Dell 3100cn printing at slow speed only

I have a Dell 3100cn from about 3 years ago and a new MBP with OS X Leopard. On my previous MBP with Tiger i was able to go into the printer settings and select only black and white printing, which greatly increased the print speed (around 25ppm I think). Now that i have Leopard, I can't find a setting to switch the printer between colour and B&W, so it always prints as though the document is colour even when the document is just a B&W image or text, which really slows it down (around 5 ppm). I haven't installed any Dell drivers. The forums seem to say there aren't any or something. Are there drivers that will help me?

update your power manager software and see whether that helps.
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Thanks for your reply via email/msg. He wrote:
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if you want help about your conenction speed from the forum members then can you post the adsl stats from your router please.
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once you have maintained 3 days + stable connection then you can contact the forum mods on this link and request a noise margin reset http://bt.custhelp.com/app/contact_email/c/4951
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