Global printing options for all clients?

[Michael Sweet]

Matthew Ford wrote:
> I have a color inkjet printer, with an option "-o CNGrayscale" provided in the driver for grayscale printing. Since not all client software provides a grayscale printing option, I would like to set up two queues: one for color printing and one for grayscale. At first I tried setting this up using lpoptions - but it appears that the /etc/cups/lpoptions file only affects local print jobs submitted via "lpr", and not jobs submitted by remote clients. How can I set the grayscale option as a default for ALL jobs in this queue? Something in the printers.conf file, perhaps? I did not find anything in the web interface.

If you are using CUPS 1.2 or higher, use:

     lpadmin -p printer -o CNGrayscale-default=foo

or if the option comes from a PPD file you can set the printer options
from the web interface or use:

     lpdmin -p printer -o CNGrayscale=foo

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