Laser printing from Indesign CS4 to Oki laser C5750

I am printing booklets which contain mostly text with quite a few B/W photographs and colour photographs. I have iMac running OS 10.6.5 with Indesign CS4 printing to OKI C5750 laser printer. The problem is that I am using the colour toner at a very rapid rate (about 400 pages before one or more of them runs out) I am sure my personal density factor is high but I cannot find a way to set print settings to minimise the use of colour toner (other than one tick box).
The manuals do not seem to help nor does the Oki tech support (although they are very pleasant). Is there anyone who can advise so that I do overspend my small pension?
Peter

Mr. Met wrote:
There are bw and 4C images in this doc. Print to grayscale won't work.
[edit] Huh…Didn't see my earlier reply when I checked a few moments ago. When I retyped my answer and posted it was there. Sorry for the double post.
Hmmmm, forum seems a tad low this morning. 20 minute lag between the email and the post that now appears. I guess that explains the second comment.
Glad the image mode check worked out. I hate to tell you how common it is to find "grayscales" that are really RGB with a filter or desaturated.

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