[cups.general] Forcing Greyscale, works with unix - not windows

[Helge Blischke]

Brad Langhorst wrote:
> 
> Helge Blischke wrote:
> ...
> >>>Did you install your printers on the win box(es) via cupsaddsmb (or the equivalent
> >>>"by hand" procedure described in the samba howto)? If not, your PPD modifications
> >>>won't have copied over to the windows box; you'd have to redo the modifications "by hand"
> >>>again on the windows box.
> >>
> >>sure - I don't expect there to be any changes to the ppd on the
> >>clients... I want cups to spool the job through a pstops and strip out
> >>the color information.
> >>
> >>Do you know if that is possible?
> >>
> >>brad
> >
> >
> > It depends on wether the printing app itself queries the PPD (either directly or via printer driver
> > functions), like e.g. QuarkXpress does or not. Perhaps you could post a sample file to have a look
> > into?
> >
> > Helge
> 
> I don't understand... how could an app on the client query the ppd that
> resides on the cups server?
With PostScript printing, the client computer (e.g. Mac or Winxx) DOES have a PPD that pretends to
describe the printer's properties. The PPD should be the same as the one used by CUPS (that is one reason
I recommended using cupsaddsmb).
> 
> I've figured out why i get the error page - it's because pstops adds a
> second EOF marker to the output when it runs on.
That's probably due to lacking DSC conformace of the print job. Therefore the need for a sample file ...
> 
> I posted that problem in another thread.
> 
> I'd be happy to post a sample file - but i'm not sure we're
> understanding each other yet...
> 
> brad

Helge

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