Re: Black and White Printing

On Nov 29, 3:10 am, Bfraga <bfr...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Nov 28, 1:46 pm, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:





In article <befde2f8-a101-44f0-a044-00f2c18a1...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Bfraga <bfr...@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

On 28 nov, 12:17, Mike Rechtman <m...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Bfraga wrote:
Hello,

I have several alphaservers running OpenVMS. To print we use the
command PRINT/QUEUE filename to send the file to the printer queue and
print it.
I want to know if there is a way to print only black and white, to
reduce the printing cost.

Thank

Probably easiest to change printer setup. (can be done per-job)
If hou can find the escape sequence that switches the printers int b&w
only, you could create a module containing those in DEVCTL.TLB, and
create a form with that module in /SETUP.
Start at $HELP DEF /FORM =A0and continue to "Batch and Print" in SYSMAN
documentation.

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I can't set the printer to b&w because it's shared with other systems.
There is a command to do this in the queue creation? Or in the print
command?

It didn't occur to you to tell us what TYPE (brand, model,etc.) of printer
you have associated with the queue in question?

If it's postscript, it might be possible to define the set{}color to be a
setgray command.  Or, there might be control commands that would set the
printer to B&W mode for your job.  Of course, this is just wasting band-
width without some knowledge of the printer.

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The printer is a HP business inkjet 2280dn, and we use postscript to
print the files. Is there a command in postscript to set it to b&w?- Hide quoted text -

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You could use ghostscript to convert your ps files before printing.
If you tell gs that its printer is a model that only supports b&w
then it will create postscript with no colour.
This is defined in PPD files that ghostscript uses.
Phil
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