Re: [CentOS] force b/w printing

2010-08-04 Thread Janez Kosmrlj
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan raju.rajs...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings, On 8/3/10, Janez Kosmrlj postnali...@googlemail.com wrote: Has anyone an idea, how to force users to print b/w on a color printer. Strange how come people miss out the loclhost:631 on the system

Re: [CentOS] force b/w printing

2010-08-04 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On 8/4/10, Janez Kosmrlj postnali...@googlemail.com wrote: The best solution would be command line and if possible bash scriptable. Ignore the previous jest. In your scenario, puppet would possibly be one of the components twiddling the /etc/cups* stuff in the clients across

Re: [CentOS] force b/w printing

2010-08-04 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On Wednesday 04 August 2010 02:18:55 Janez Kosmrlj wrote: but the user can still change back to color mode, if he wants to in the print dialog. I want that they don't even have the option to print in color Have you tried modifying the PPD file to remove the color option? I mean, I would copy

[CentOS] force b/w printing

2010-08-03 Thread Janez Kosmrlj
Has anyone an idea, how to force users to print b/w on a color printer. We are in the process to deploy color printers to some of our offices where they use centos 5.5 as their OS. They need the printers to print some advertisement material. But for everything else, they don't need it. And because

Re: [CentOS] force b/w printing

2010-08-03 Thread Dale Dellutri
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 3:48 AM, Janez Kosmrlj postnali...@googlemail.comwrote: Has anyone an idea, how to force users to print b/w on a color printer. We are in the process to deploy color printers to some of our offices where they use centos 5.5 as their OS. They need the printers to print

Re: [CentOS] force b/w printing

2010-08-03 Thread Janez Kosmrlj
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 12:41 PM, John Doe jd...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Janez Kosmrlj postnali...@googlemail.com Has anyone an idea, how to force users to print b/w on a color printer. We are in the process to deploy color printers to some of our offices where they use centos 5.5 as their

Re: [CentOS] force b/w printing

2010-08-03 Thread Keith Roberts
On Tue, 3 Aug 2010, Janez Kosmrlj wrote: To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: Janez Kosmrlj postnali...@googlemail.com Subject: [CentOS] force b/w printing Has anyone an idea, how to force users to print b/w on a color printer. We are in the process to deploy color printers

Re: [CentOS] force b/w printing

2010-08-03 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On 8/3/10, Janez Kosmrlj postnali...@googlemail.com wrote: Has anyone an idea, how to force users to print b/w on a color printer. Strange how come people miss out the loclhost:631 on the system hosting the printer and check out the printer options button. I swear, it is gui. This