No black&white or grayscale option for postscript printer

At work we have a Sharp laser copier printer that is capable of printing in color. They tell us, however, to avoid printing in color because it costs more.
Normally, in the print dialog, there's an advanced option where you can select to print in color or grayscale. For this printer, for some reason, when we provide the address, and MacOS queries the printer type, it just appears as "Generic PostScript printer," and as a result, there is no such advanced option.
Is there another "generic" postscript driver we can select that will include this option?
Incidentally, I can't figure out how to change what driver is being used for this printer. Any hints?
Thanks.

theosib wrote:
For this printer, for some reason, when we provide the address, and MacOS queries the printer type, it just appears as "Generic PostScript printer," and as a result, there is no such advanced option.
The Generic PS driver included with OS X will only print in colour to a colour device. As you have found, there is no setting to change it to Grayscale/B&W.
theosib wrote:
Is there another "generic" postscript driver we can select that will include this option?
If the Sharp supports the PCL printer language, there is a Generic PCL Laser driver also included with OS X that will only print in B&W.
If the Sharp does not support the PCL printer language then check the Sharp web site for a "PPD" for your model. This should give you the option to print in B&W.
theosib wrote:
Incidentally, I can't figure out how to change what driver is being used for this printer. Any hints?
If the printer is already created then you can use the CUPS web admin page to change the settings for the printer. But it is often just easier to delete the printer from Printers & Scanners and create a new one. Note that when creating the printer, you can click on the Use menu and this will give you options to select an alternate driver.

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