[cups.general] Howto force a printer to print Grayscale?

[Helge Blischke]

Linuxhippy wrote:
> 
> Hi there!
> 
> I own a Canon-i250 (I know about Canon :( ) and the manufacturer
> provides drivers for cups.
> They work great except that I want my printer to print black only (so
> that greyscales aren't mixed out of Colours), but I don't know where to
> change this.
> The kprinter-dialog tells me that the only supported operating mode is
> "RGB", however I believe (I am not exactly sure) that it was possible
> with an older version of cups (shipped with SuSE-9.1) to print true
> grayscale too.
> 
> Is there any way to force the printer to print black only?
> 
It depends on the driver software you use. Please tell us how the
printer is connected, post 
(an URL to) the PPD, etc.

Helge

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