Printing black-and-white

[Helge Blischke]

tong wrote:
> Hi
> 
> How can I do black-and-white-only printing for even color sources?
> 
> Most pdf filre are colored, but acroread doesn't has the option to let me choose to print black-and-white-only.
> 
> I tried the following in acroread printer command configuration, but still, acroread prints color outputs.
> 
>  /usr/bin/lpr -P my_printer -o saturation=0
> 
> Please help.
> 
> Can I give my printer an alias for black-and-white-only printing, and use that whenever I want to print black-and-white?
> 
> thanks
> 
> tong
> 
> 

If your printer is a native PostScript printer and it's PPD
provides options to select the color model, then change
the default color model defined in the PPD.

Please post (an URL to) your PPD for more information.

Helge


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Helge Blischke
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