[cups.general] MacOS X client misbehaving

[Marc Lanctot]

Hi guys,

I've recently setup a printing system here at the department of 
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences.

I have a SUSE Linux 9.2 server running CUPS 1.1.23.

I have a department full of printing clients, with a good variety of 
operating systems, all of which must print via the print server 
(printing directly to the printers is disbled).

My Linux clients are all using CUPS as well, all different versions from 
different Linux distros, but they're working like a charm. My SGI IRIX 
machines use lp and communicate through the CUPS lpd compatibility 
server. For various reasons particular to my setup I could not get 
Windows clients to work through Samba nor IPP, so they use LPR to 
connect as well.

I have an HP Color Laserjet 4700 using the latest postscript PPD driver 
from LinuxPrinting.org, and a queue called say 'Eg-BW' which has the 
"Print Color as Gray" flag turned on so that black-and-white printing is 
forced when using this queue.

Here's my problem: when I print from Adobe Reader 7.07 on a MacOS 10.3.9 
client connecting through LPR to my Linux print server, it overrides the 
forced black-and-white setting and prints in color anyway. We charge 
each of our users depending on the queue used, so it's important that 
the restrictions for each queue work on all clients. This only happens 
on the Mac -- I can print properly from all my other clients.

Anybody know how to fix this problem?

Thanks,
Marc