Most (all?) of the time when I print a postscript file on a colour
postscript printer, if I tell the printer driver to print black and
white it normally ignores me and prints in colour anyway. I presume it
is just printing the postscript file as is and ignoring my instructions,
is there a way to get round it and force it to print black and white.
(It will allow me to scale down to print several pages on one page).

Printers concerned Xerox Phaser 8200 over USB (Postscript 3)
Canon CLC 950 via Fiery XJ over network (Postscript 2)

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Should work if you are not using a Mac, are you?

ER

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Timothy-

A Postscript file is a text file that that can be edited using a text
editor. With a little practice, you may be able to perfect a procedure for
either eliminating color, or changing it to black.

You might make a copy of a PS file and do a text search for instructions
that define color. In a sample file, I did a search for color and found
one occurence of setrgbcolor. Eliminating or commenting-out that line
might default to black or white, but I didn't try it to see. I wonder if
setrgbblack or setrgboff are legitimate commands?


Fred

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writes
machine.
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In message <1cj2l1521nq0s0npu7801tt5e4thpqbs6d@4ax.com>, "Ed Ruf (REPLY
to E-MAIL IN SIG!)" <egruf_usenet2@cox.net> writes
PDFs, produced in various ways, printed from Adobe reader.

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I'm not generating the pdf files.

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