[cups.general] Create color / black and white queues from color printer

[Helge Blischke]

Daniel J. Soto wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> it is possible that another people have been asked the same question but
> I'm googling from last ten days and I have not found anything about this
> that I can use...
> 
> I'm looking for a way to create two queues from the same color printer,
> one for printing in color and one for printing in black and white (or
> grayscale). I've tryed to modify the ppd file manually setting de
> attribute ColorDevice to false but it doesn't work. My objetive is to do
> this internally from my (php) program but I'm trying to do manually before
> for understanding the process... It's seems CUPS doesn't read the ppd file
> before printing (ubuntu)...
> 
> Perphaps anybody have had the same problem before... or knows how I do
> that or where I can find info about doing that...
> 
> I would be much obliged for any hepful information...
> 
> Regards,
> Daniel.

Don't touch the ColorDevice attribute but instead change the
*DefaultColorSpace: xxxx
(xxxx will be CMYK or RGB) to
*DefaultColorSpace: Gray

Helge
for the grayscale queue.