Printing black-and-white

[Helge Blischke]

tong wrote:
>>>How can I do black-and-white-only printing for even color sources?
>>>
>>>...
>>>
>>>Can I give my printer an alias for black-and-white-only printing, and use that whenever I want to print black-and-white?
>>
>>If your printer is a native PostScript printer and it's PPD
>>provides options to select the color model,
> 
> 
> No, it is a inkjet printer driven by Gutenprint:
> 
> Description: Epson Stylus CX1500
> Location: USB Printer #1
> Make and Model: Epson Stylus CX1500 - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.0.0-rc3
> Printer State: idle, accepting jobs, published.
> Device URI: usb://EPSON/Stylus%20CX1500
> 
> 
>>then change the default color model defined in the PPD.
> 
> 
> I don't know about PPD, and I hope that I don't need to touch any system files. Changing the default color model defined in the PPD might not alows me to print color documents as color and/or black-and-white, as I wish.
> 
> That's why I want give my printer an alias for black-and-white-only printing, and use that whenever I want to print black-and-white, and use the real printer name for color printing.
> 
> thanks
> 
> 

You should have a file /etc/cups/ppd/xxxx.ppd, where xxxx is the name you have configured your
printer with. Please post (an URL to) this PPD.

Helge



-- 
Helge Blischke
Softwareentwicklung
SRZ Berlin | Firmengruppe besscom
http://www.srz.de