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

[Brad Langhorst]

Helge Blischke wrote:
> Brad Langhorst wrote:
> 
>>Henk.Roose at cwi.nl wrote:
>>
>>>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?
>>>
>>
>>thanks for your response...
>>the windows clients print via samba (cups backend)
>>The clients use standard SMB printing.
>>(All the jobs flow through cups)
>>
>>brad
> 
> 
> 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