[cups.general] Making a HP 4650 default to printing black & white

[Michael Sweet]

On Dec 1, 2009, at 6:10 AM, Torkil Svensgaard wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I'm trying to get our HP Color LaserJet 4650 to default to printing in 
> black and white instead of color, while still giving the users the 
> option of enabling color for particular jobs but I seem to be stuck.
> 
> In the PPD file I have tried this:
> 
> *DefaultColorSpace:     Gray
> *DefaultColorModel: Gray
> 
> Neither makes any difference, the print preference GUI in Windows XP 
> still uses color as default instead of black & white.


The Windows PostScript driver does not honor PPD defaults... :(

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer