[plug] Grayscale printing

[W.Kenworthy]

There are roundabout ways to do this.  The pdftopdf optimiser takes
ghostscript options, according to a quick google there is a greyscale
one.  Depending on your printer setup, you may be able to set up a
printer that takes this option directly.  There's also "ijsgimpprint -
Ghostscript driver for
Gimp-Print" (http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man1/ijsgimpprint.1.html)
etc which can do greyscale.  

google for "ghostscript greyscale" will produce many ways to skin this
cat.

BillK


On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 21:52 +0800, Adam Davin wrote:
> Hello all, 
> 
> I have been googling for this for a while and not come up with anything
> helpful.
> 
> I am want to be able to force colour documents to grayscale and cannot
> find (if one even exists) a '-o' lp option that allows this. I am
> printing to an "Epson ALC 1900" colour laser printer using cups with the
> Epson ALC1900 ppd file. Is there any way I can do a:
> 
> lp -s -dEpsonALC1900 /path/to/document.pdf -o something=force-grayscale
> 
> Basically I want to be able to force grayscale for all those
> nasty pdfs etc that think its great to have a nonwhite background. Using
> Openoffice or other GUI programs I can select "grayscale" as an option,
> but I can't find how to set this on the command line.
> 
> Thanks in Advance, 
> 
> Regards
>