In my own case, I’ve been fighting this exact same thing with SMART Notebook for years—every time I print a worksheet for a class set, I have to manually switch it to black and white, and the second I close the program, it forgets. It’s maddening how much toner gets wasted because the “default” is stuck on colour. Then I started printing more of my 3D model assemblies at home, especially after downloading STL files from https://www.gambody.com/ - those detailed game characters need clean, monochrome layer instructions anyway, so I got into the habit of forcing grayscale in the printer properties themselves rather than relying on the software. That’s the only workaround that’s stuck for me: set your system’s default printer preferences to monochrome via Windows’ own devices and printers menu, not the app. SMART won’t override that because the driver handles it last. It’s not elegant, but it’s saved me from tearing my hair out.
In my own case, I’ve been fighting this exact same thing with SMART Notebook for years—every time I print a worksheet for a class set, I have to manually switch it to black and white, and the second I close the program, it forgets. It’s maddening how much toner gets wasted because the “default” is stuck on colour. Then I started printing more of my 3D model assemblies at home, especially after downloading STL files from https://www.gambody.com/ - those detailed game characters need clean, monochrome layer instructions anyway, so I got into the habit of forcing grayscale in the printer properties themselves rather than relying on the software. That’s the only workaround that’s stuck for me: set your system’s default printer preferences to monochrome via Windows’ own devices and printers menu, not the app. SMART won’t override that because the driver handles it last. It’s not elegant, but it’s saved me from tearing my hair out.