[cups.general] CUPS: How to Block Color Printing?

[Helge Blischke]

ricardo oliveira wrote:
> Hi:
>  
> I have a printer that prints in color and b/w. I use the generic 
> Postscript driver. I want to forbidden color printing to this printer 
> and I need to make it in the cups server!
>  
> What i need is that whenever a user tries to print some color pages, 
> that print is always output as B/W and not Color. How can I do this?
> 
> I heard that this would be possible by modifying the cups PPD file and 
> more specific the cupsFilter. Is that true? How can I do this? What do I 
> need to change in the generic Postscript driver?
>  
>  
> Thanks
> Ric

You first need to use the printer specific PPD, not the generic PPD.
Then, if the PPD offers an option to select the color model,
you may change the default and take precautions which
disallow changing the color model from within the
PostScript job.

Helge

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