Printing with black ink

I have a Canon MP600. Wrote to Canon and asked why it won't print in black. They blamed it on Apple and said it has to be reset to black each time I want to print in black! I can't believe Apple could be so dumb. It requires several steps, easily forgotten, to get black ink.
Could this be Apple's fault? What is a work around, if so?
Thanks,
I'm feeling black and blue.

In the "Print" dialog, use "Presets" "Save As..." to
give a name to the setting, or "Save" to make it the
default.
Better:
"Print" dialog, Quality & Media, Grayscale printing
Everytime you print, no default?
for Canon Pixma MP600 (popular model) which was advertised as being one even grandma could use. This grandma is irked!
iBookG4 Mac OS X (10.4.4)

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