printing b&w with Epson Stylus Color 760

Helge Blischke h.blischke at acm.org
Fri Oct 22 14:55:22 PDT 2010


Tomas Davidek wrote:

> Hello,
>   my printer (see subject) has two ink tanks - black one and color one.
>   The CUPS I am using now (version 1.4.4) has for this printer only the
>   ppd "CUPS+Gutenprint v5.2.6 (color, 2-sided printing)". It prints ok,
>   but always uses colors. I wonder how can I force CUPS to print in b&w? I
>   could not find such a driver....
> 
> Or can I just modify the ppd, e.g. changing
> *DefaultColorModel: RGB  -> *DefaultColorModel: Gray/Grayscale
> Unfortunately, there are several similar items in the ppd, so I am not
> sure what exactly should be changed. Moreover, if this is the right way to
> go, how do I make sure the b&w printing really uses the black ink tank and
> not the color one?
> 
> Thanks a lot for any hint,
> 
> best regards
>                   Tomas Davidek

Yes, changing the default color model to Gray will do. If it then uses only 
the black ink I don't know but I suppose it does (as far as I understand the 
strategy of Robert Krawitz).

Helge





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