Colour Printing in Adobe Reader

[Helge Blischke]

roshnipaul wrote:

> Hello everyone. I'm wondering if you guys might be able to help with a
> little something.
> 
> I'm administering an office network of windows xp pcs, with a debian/samba
> PDC. We have CUPS setup as a print server to manage access to the office
> printer.
> 
> For the most part things are working fine, however there is an issue.
> We frequently work with pdf documents here, using Adobe Reader. When we
> print such documents from within the reader, they always come out in full
> colour, if they contain any colours. This is more costly than black and
> white printing and we'd really like to have the option.
> 
> Adobe reader does contain such an option, it simply isn't working. Under
> file > Print Setup > Properties > Paper/Quality tab. There's radio buttons
> to choose between black and white, or colour. But setting it to the former
> still prints in colour.
> 
> I'm thinking that CUPS is the likely point of failure here, failing to
> recognise and pass on the flag to print in greyscale. Such settings in
> other programs, like microsoft office/openoffice are respected just fine.
> 
> Does anyone have any insight into the problem?

If your office printer permits switching between color and b/w printing,
you could set up a different cups queue for b/w printing only.

If you tell what printer is concerned (and what PPD you use with cups), I 
could tell you how to.

Helge