How to clean up full color pics for black/white print?

[abrogard]

we only have an old black and white office printer.

from time to time we want to print out images that are full  color or close it it.

then the printer wastes a lot of ink doing a dark background and incidentally obscuring much clarity.

is there a way to deal with this probably fairly common problem?

here is today's example:  


color image