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drahnr

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Registered: 2011-03-14

Posts: 73

[SOLVED] cups, lpr and colour settings

I want to print via lpr to a cups printer using grayscale though the default for the printer is colour printing. Is there an option to make lpr go grayscale?
In the gnome3 crippled settings dialog I can not set these things. In system-config-printer (part of system-config-printer-gnome pkg) I can set the default.

Any ideas on howto set either the lpr colour scale output (preferably) or switch the default to grayscale by console?

thank you

Last edited by drahnr (2011-07-02 13:38:47)

nicodoggie

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Registered: 2010-12-31

Posts: 15

Re: [SOLVED] cups, lpr and colour settings

You could try changing some options using lpoptions.

Use:

lpoptions -l

to list printer specific settings
then

lpoptions -o option=value

to set it.

On my HP printer, I had this particular option:

ColorModel/Output Mode: *RGB CMYGray KGray

So I set

lpotions -o ColorModel=KGray

To set my printer to a Black-only grayscale mode.

Hope this helps

drahnr

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Registered: 2011-03-14

Posts: 73

Re: [SOLVED] cups, lpr and colour settings

Awesome! Thank you __very__much! That's exactly what I wanted *thumbs_up*