> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Nov  2 13:21:25 2001
> Subject: LPRng: Multiple copies
> From: Jim Easton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date:   Fri, 2 Nov 2001 13:10:19 -0700 (MST)
> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> 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
>

You can add this to the ifhp.conf file, in the 'ps_init' section.

By the way, are the multiple copies being done for PCL as well
as PostScript?

Patrick

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