Brother HL-2040 laser printer not working properly with XP?

I have a Brother HL-2040 (black toner only) laser printer plugged into my XP
PC. For some reason, it will not print colored text in a document as black-
it prints colored text in shades of grey. It did not behave this way on my
old '98 PC. I have looked at all the printer settings so am I missing a
setting someplace in XP that controls how it prints colored text?

On Dec 21, 10:23*am, "RW" <range...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have a Brother HL-2040 (black toner only) laser printer plugged into my XP
> PC. For some reason, it will not print colored text in a document as black-
> it prints colored text in shades of grey. It did not behave this way on my
> old '98 PC. I have looked at all the printer settings so am I missing a
> setting someplace in XP that controls how it prints colored text?

Have you checked the mfr site to see if there's a special XP driver?

"RW" <ranger52@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>I have a Brother HL-2040 (black toner only) laser printer plugged into my
>XP PC. For some reason, it will not print colored text in a document as
>black- it prints colored text in shades of grey. It did not behave this way
>on my old '98 PC. I have looked at all the printer settings so am I missing
>a setting someplace in XP that controls how it prints colored text?
Not for sure, but I would try this.
Under printer properties>color management>uncheck print colors as gray scale

Good idea. After posting my message here I called Brother and they didn't
know the answer but they did escalate my call to an engineer that is
supposed to call me back. Thanks.


"Uncle Grumpy" <pauld1943@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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On Dec 21, 10:23 am, "RW" <range...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have a Brother HL-2040 (black toner only) laser printer plugged into my
> XP
> PC. For some reason, it will not print colored text in a document as
> black-
> it prints colored text in shades of grey. It did not behave this way on my
> old '98 PC. I have looked at all the printer settings so am I missing a
> setting someplace in XP that controls how it prints colored text?

Have you checked the mfr site to see if there's a special XP driver?

RW wrote:
> I have a Brother HL-2040 (black toner only) laser printer plugged
> into my XP PC. For some reason, it will not print colored text in a
> document as black- it prints colored text in shades of grey. It did
> not behave this way on my old '98 PC. I have looked at all the
> printer settings so am I missing a setting someplace in XP that
> controls how it prints colored text?

So you want blue type on a yellow background to print as a black page?

Hmm.