Force Black and White default on printer queue?

Am I missing something easy or is it really this hard to force B&W to be the default when printing? I'm able to do this on the Windows 2003 server using the same Konica printer, but when I go to my SL Server I look all over in the queue and driver and can't find anything to force B&W as the default option.
Would appreciate any insight anyone has on this. If you need more info let me know.
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