printing b/w instead of color

[Christoph Litauer]

Helge Blischke schrieb:
> Christoph Litauer wrote:
> 
>> Helge Blischke schrieb:
>>> Christoph Litauer wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I have a problem printing color pages on a color laserjet printer, that
>>>> is configured to print b/w by default (ppd file).
>>>>
>>>> Environment:
>>>> SuSE SLES 10sp1
>>>> cups-1.1.23
>>>> cups-windows-6.0.1
>>>> printer is a HP Color LaserJet CP4005
>>>>
>>>> I configured the printer to print b/w by default ("Print Color as Gray"
>>>> to "on" via cups interface). Then cupsaddsmb'd the driver. When printing
>>>> from windows all pages are printed b/w, regardless if I switch "print
>>>> color as gray" to on or off in the printers extended options.
>>>>
>>>> I tracked the problem down a bit: The file generated by the windows
>>>> (cups) driver is printed in color. Filtering this file through pstops or
>>>> the alternate pstops leads to a postscript file that has all the printer
>>>> defaults included, that are defined in the printers ppd-description. As
>>>> the default is "print in b/w", the page is printed b/w.
>>>> I lookup up the source of the alternate pstops and found a comment that
>>>> prevents the inclusion of the ppd defaults if the postscript code
>>>> contains %cupsJobTicket: supress-setup-features-from-ppd
>>>>
>>>> I proofed this by including this line in the postscript file by hand.
>>>> All worked fine now.
>>>>
>>>> My question is: I think the windows cups driver (cupsdrv6.dll) should
>>>> generate that pseudo comment, shouldn't it? But looking for strings like
>>>> cupsJobTicket in the dll only leads to:
>>>>
>>>> %%cupsJobTicket: job-billing="%s"
>>>> %%cupsJobTicket: page-label="%s"
>>>>
>>>> Some configuration mistake? And ideas? Thanks in advance for any hints!
>>>> Please email a copy as I do not read this group very regularly.
>>>>
>>> The "%cupsJobTicket: supress-setup-features-from-ppd" comment
>>> is not generated by the PPD as modified by cupsaddsmb.
>>>
>>> You need to edit the PPD on your Windows box(es) like this:
>>> Look for the Keywords
>>> *JCLBegin
>>> and
>>> *JCLToPSInterpreter
>>> until
>>> *JCLend
>>> and change them to the following:
>>> ---snip---
>>> *JCLBegin: "%!PS-Adobe-3.0<0A>"
>>> *JCLToPSInterpreter: "%cupsJobTicket:
>>> supress-setup-features-from-ppd<0A>" *End
>>> *JCLEnd: ""
>>> ---snip---
>>> This will do what you need (only when using the alternate pstops filter,
>>> of course).
>> Thanks for your quick response Helge,
>>
>> this is a very clever trick and it worked - in principle ...
>>
>> I added your remarks to my ppd file (it didn't contain any JCL
>> definitions). But after updating the windows driver using cupsaddsmb
>> this section looks like this:
>>
>> *%========================================================
>> *% JCL Features
>> *%========================================================
>> *% Commented out by cupsaddsmb...
>> *%JCLBegin: "%!PS-Adobe-3.0<0A>"
>> *% Commented out by cupsaddsmb...
>> *%JCLToPSInterpreter: "%cupsJobTicket:
>> supress-setup-features-from-ppd<0A>" *End
>> *% Commented out by cupsaddsmb...
>> *%JCLEnd: ""
>>
>>
>> I deleted the comments manually. Now my prints are colored. But why does
>> cupsaddsmb remove these configuration entries?
>>
> 
> Sory, I suggested to edit the respective PPD(s) on the Windows side after 
> installing by cupsaddsmb.
> 
> For my own use, I did a Perl script, cupsforwindows.pl, which modifies the 
> PPD as described (and adds some more things) and populates a folder
> with the modified PPDs (for all printers configured for CUPS), the 
> cupsforwindows files, and an .inf file. This folder - shared by SAMBA -
> can then be used as an installation medium.
> 
> If you like, you can get this script.

Yes, please.

-- 
Regards
Christoph
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