christoph beyer wrote:
> but I actually mean something different: after a while the default
> number of copies entry in the internal printer menu is set to e.g. 13
> copies, which automatically results in 13 copies of every job you send.
> This is probably done by some pjl string but I don't know which one and
> where it comes from....
I can suggest where it might be coming from:
The number of copies can be set by the postscript file. Likely
a user has asked for 13 copies. Naturally the postscript
doesn't set it back and that leaves the printer with /NumCopies
set.
If LPRng doesn't have a option with which you can force, or at
least default, the number of copies to 1 you could send it the
following postscript file.
%!
<< /NumCopies 1 >> setpagedevice
As an interesting note: years ago our administrator decreed that
multiple copies were not allowed because photocopying was cheaper.
(In fact it was - by quite a bit) Since this didn't cut no ice
with the users I ended up putting a catch in the filter which
forbad the setting of /NumCopies - complaints predictable.
This did not however prevent some enterprising sole (sic.) from
setting the console to multiple copies. Of course he didn't
set it back - they never do - and after that we got several
copies of every job. :-( So I added a default of one. That
worked just fine until one day people were telling me that
one of our printers was printing two copies of the banner -
I had forgotten to default the banner too - sigh.
Jim
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