On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 01:22 -0700, Leslie Katz wrote: > The printer's a Canon Pixma MP160. > > It has a black cartridge and a colour cartridge. Both must be present for the > printer to work. > > The person for whom I've set the printer up (using Canon-supplied software) > wants to use the printer as a black printer only. > > The Canon-supplied software includes a command line printing application that > permits one to print in black only, but it's fiddly and not a realistic > option for the person for whom I've set up the printer. > > I thought I might be able to solve the problem by editing the .ppd file, but > that didn't work.
The print subsystem Cups (http://localhost:631) will alow you to set up another printer referring to the same physical printer with a greyscale setting. -- Ken Foskey FOSS developer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
