How do I print grayscale with an HP Officejet Pro 8600?

I have an "HP Officejet Pro 8600 Pro e-All-in-One" printer. Can I print grayscale or black and white with it?
I'm running OS X 10.8.2 Mountain Lion. In System Preferences for Print & Scan, I chose the driver called "HP Officejet Pro 8600" (rather than the default of "AirPrint"). In the print dialog box, under "Color Matching", I select "ColorSync" rather than "Vendor Matching" and get a list of seven ColorSync profiles as shown below, none of which are grayscale or black and white.
Am I simply out of luck because HP hasn't provided the necessary feature?

With the most recent batch of printer drivers, the vendors have provided their own grayscale setting rather than creating a ICC profile and adding it to the ColorSync library. So if you set Color Matching back to Vendor and then change from the Color Matching menu to one of the HP menus, maybe there is a Grayscale option available this way.
With reference to my Canon MP990, I don't use HP so don't know the menu names, I have a Quality menu and within here is the Grayscale setting.

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Welcome to the HP Support forums. I gather that you would like to learn how to scan using your Officejet Pro 8600 printer.
You didn’t indicate which operating system you are using so I have included all the How To Scan documents for you.
How to Scan: From the Control Panel
How to Scan: OS X v10.6
How to Scan: OS X v10.7
How to Scan: OS X v10.8
How to Scan: OS X v10.9
How to Scan: Windows XP
How to Scan: Windows Vista
How to Scan: Windows 7
How to Scan: Windows 8
How to Scan: Windows RT or Windows 8 on a Tablet
How to Scan: From a Mobile Device
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petergole,
To make sure we aren't dealing with a software problem lets try to uninstall with the 'scrubber option' like this:
1. Go to Applications/Hewlett Packard/ click on HP Uninstaller and click Continue
2. Highlight your device on the left pane
3. Hold the Ctrl, Opt and Cmd keys and click on Uninstall
4. There will be a pop up that asks if you are sure you want to uninstall ALL hp software. (At this point, if you continue, any HP printers you have installed will need to be reinstalled)
5. Click Continue and let it finish
Now, run a Software Update. This can be done by clicking the Apple in the top left of the screen then clicking Software Updates.
Next, let's reset the printing system:
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- Right (or control) click in the rectangle listing your printers and select Reset Printing System.
WARNING - this will delete ALL of your printers!
- Select the plus sign to re-add a printer. Select the Default tab on the top of the window. Look for the printer, select it and wait until the "Add" button becomes available. Click it.
Finally, use this guide to reinstall: http://goo.gl/Na4Qm
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Snow Leopard has more compatible Java.
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Hi Jo-Winch I hope you are doing well and welcome to the HP forum
If I understand correclty.
You are regiter to Eprint.
you already have an e-mail assigned to the printer
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3) http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Printer-All-in-One-Software-Drivers/8600-Pro-no-print-preview-Can-I-use...
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Hi DragonflyFairy,
I understand you would like to know how to get the print preview when printing from the internet.
Depending on what browser you are using, you should have the option to do the print preview.
I have provided 3 different browsers with how to get to the print preview.
Internet Explorer: Go to file, print preview and make your adjustments.
Google Chrome: Go to the icon in the top right corner and click the icon with the 3 lines, click print, make your changes.
Firefox: Click on the tab Firefox dropdown and select print, print preview. Change your settings.
If you are missing the print preview, take a peek at these documents to see if it will help.
Unable to print or view the print preview of a webpage in Internet Explorer.
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How to print websites.
I came across this article that you may want to take a look at, if you are using Google Chrome.
Printing Problem - Will Not Load Print Preview.
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Can't print all docs to HP OfficeJet Pro 8600 Premium

I just bought the 8600. I can print Word, Excel and PDF documents from my HP HDX 16-1140US notebook just fine. The notebook runs Windows Vista and the network connection is wireless.
I also have a Dell Inspiron 530 desktop that was upgraded from Windows XP to Windows 7 about three months ago. It's connected to the network via Ethernet. The only documents it will print come from Word. When I try to print from Excel or Adobe I get a message that there's no network connection. I used to be able to print everything despite the upgrade to Win7.
I installed the printer on both machines using the HP DVD. Due to problems with our phone lines that our wiring guys need to address, I haven't installed the fax yet on either computer.
Our service provider for phone and Internet is u-Verse. They just installed a Motorola NVG589 modem/router a few days ago to replace a 2Wire that got fried in a power outage. (It's probably not a surprise to you then that our wiring guys need to get involved too...)
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Hi,
I see that you are having some issues when attempting to print.
Are you able to access the EWS page using the IP address assigned to the printer. http://192.x.x.x. If you are able to access that I assume your network is fine.
Have you tried to reinstall the HP SW. I suggest you reinstall the software. Please ensure to uninstall before reinstalling again. You can also get the latest SW from HP Support site at http://www.hp.com/
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