[cups.general] Forcing Greyscale, works with unix - not windows
Henk.Roose at cwi.nl
Henk.Roose at cwi.nl
Sun Sep 25 01:15:34 PDT 2005
Brad Langhorst wrote:
> I have a color printer... I've modified the PPD according to these posts
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.printing.cups.general/10995
>
> Now users only have the black and white option from the cups interface.
> I did find that I had to both restart cups AND go back through the
> "modify printer" step in the web UI to get changes to the ppd to take
> effect.
>
> Unfortunately windows jobs still make it through in color. On top of
> that every job prints out a page saying
> "
> ERROR: undefined
> OFFENDING COMMAND: userdict
>
> STACK:
> "
>
> two questions...
> 1) how do I get rid of the error message
> 2) how do I make the windows jobs lose their color info
Maybe I can help you but I'd like to ask a few questions first.
How do the windows clients print? Is your unix box a samba server? Do
the clients use lpr or tcp/ip printing? What kind of printer is it?
> I cranked up the logging and see this in the log
>
> D [23/Sep/2005:16:25:01 -0400] [Job 1741] DATA: %%[Page:
> 1]%%<0A>%%[LastPage]%%<0A>%%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommandD
> [23/Sep/2005:16:25:01 -0400] [Job 1741] DATA: : <04>userdict ]%%<0A>
> D [23/Sep/2005:16:25:01 -0400] [Job 1741] DATA: %%[ Flushing: rest of
> job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%%<0A>
>
> thanks for any help!
>
> brad
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