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

[Helge Blischke]

Brad Langhorst wrote:
> 
> 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

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

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Helge Blischke
Softwareentwicklung
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