HP Printer Won't Accept CUPS Default Settings

[Larissa]

Problem solved. The printer is a network printer so I chose to use the Apple Air Print driver in System Preferences >Print and Fax >HP Photosmart 6510 > Drivers pane. Went back to CUPS, changed default settings, then tried again. Success! Your comments around drivers got me thinking! :) Thanks for the inspiration.

> Michael,
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> Thanks for the reply, and that is basically what I suspected (about the HP driver). Although I know how to do what you suggest, it won't work for my purposes. You see, the reason I'm attempting this in the first place is because I print out a lot of coupons with the Coupons.com coupon printer. To prevent coupon duplication fraud, when you choose to print a coupon using this browser plugin, it sends the coupon directly to the printer, bypassing the print dialog interface. In doing so, it automatically uses the printer defaults, not the most recent 'stickied' printing presets/settings. On a Windows computer it is simple enough to change the default printing settings, and that makes it work just fine with the coupon printer. I've managed to change the CUPS defaults on said old Canon printer and that transferred just fine to the coupon printer plugin.
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> I'm still in search of a solution! If people on this forum are still at a loss, I'm contemplating an attempt to contact some higher-up support/programmer person at HP to see if there's some way I can modify their driver to accept the PPD defaults.
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> > Larissa,
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> > More than likely the printer driver presets are interfering with the PPD defaults; this is managed on a per-driver basis, so I'm guessing that either HP's driver is not honoring the PPD defaults or they are overriding them with their supplied presets.
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> > However, rather than continue the finger pointing I would suggest that you make your settings changes in the Print dialog instead of the web interface and save them - then you can just pick "Fast Draft" from the Presets menu as needed to apply all of your settings.  You may even find that HP has already provided a preset for this particular combination...
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> > On Jan 6, 2012, at 11:46 AM, Larissa wrote:
> > > OS: 10.7.2
> > > CUPS Version : 1.5.0
> > > Printer: HP PhotoSmart 6510
> > > Computer: Early 2011 Macbook Pro2.2 GHz
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> > > I'm attempting to change the printer defaults for my HP printer via CUPS. I can successfully save the defaults (fast draft quality and grey-scale printing) in CUPS, but when I go to print something via Safari, MS Word, etc., the defaults do not show up in the printing interface. I thought maybe my CUPS wasn't working right, so I tried changing settings for another printer (Canon MX300, 5 years old) and that worked just fine in changing the defaults in the printing interface.
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> > > I've contacted HP support, who told me it's CUPS' fault and transferred me to Apple, who then told me they don't support CUPS but that it sounds like HP's fault. Called HP back, they gave me the same answer before and were quite rude to me. So, here I am... last ditch effort before I return the printer for a Canon.
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