How do I print in Black & White?

I have a HP Officejet 6200 connected to my macbook pro running OS X. Is there any setting so I can manually override and print only in black & white. It seems to be printing only in color and I cannot seem to find a B&W manual override. This option is available when I connect the HP to a Windows XP machine, but not on the Mac. Any thoughts! I'm tired of replacing my color cartridge.
Thanks!
Macbook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Welcome to the forums!
In the Print dialog box, there is a drop-down menu that says Copies & Pages. Click that, and look for something relevant to your particular printer driver. For my HP color laser printer, it's Color Options > Print color as gray, for my Epson all-in-one it's Print Options > Color.
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