<div dir="ltr">Hi Christian, <div><br></div><div>I have the same setup, but I didn't notice this problem before. </div><div>You see, radio buttons on the "Paper / Quality" tab simply tell Windows apps to render print jobs in color or b&w. At the same time, "Color mode" within the Advanced page actually inserts a PostScript command into the job that tells Ricoh printer to print in color or in b&w mode, regardless of the contents of the job.<br>
</div><div><br></div><div>I think it is a bug in Adobe Reader: it doesn't honor color/b&w radio buttons in the printer settings at all. However, if you look under Properties button of the Print dialog in Reader, there is a "Print in grayscale" checkbox. You can tell your users to use that one instead of going all the way to Advanced options. </div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/9/18 Christian <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chanlists@googlemail.com" target="_blank">chanlists@googlemail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Dear list,<br>
<br>
I have CUPS 1.5.3 running under Debian wheezy. I use Samba, cupsaddsmb<br>
and the Microsoft windows postscript printer driver for windows (7)<br>
clients. I have a printer (RICOH Aficio MP C3502, could post PPD) which<br>
is a rather big network multifunction device. From linux, everything<br>
works fine. For windows, printing via samba, I have set up a special raw<br>
queue in CUPS using appropriate Filter definitions in the PPD, and from<br>
the logs, I can confirm that no filtering of the postscript is being<br>
done on the linux side. From windows clients, using e. g. MSWORD, all of<br>
the printer options (staple, B+W vs. color, ...) are available and work<br>
as far as I can tell.<br>
<br>
The only exception is printing from Adobe Reader under Windows. Most of<br>
the options are honored, except the "Color vs. B + W" option. Under the<br>
"Paper / Quality" tab in the printer options, there is a set of two<br>
radio buttons with little pictures next to them for Color vs. Black +<br>
White. Those do not work for me.<br>
<br>
I can only get it to print B + W from Adobe reader under windows if,<br>
rather than using those buttons, I go into "Advanced..." and then chose<br>
"Color Mode: Black and White" in the list of printer options. I know<br>
this, but it could be confusing to our users...<br>
<br>
So I'd like to understand the background better, and why only Adobe<br>
Reader does this, and whether this behavior can be fixed, e. g. by PPD<br>
hacking or other tricks...<br>
<br>
Sorry to ask here, but the "forums" link is dysfunctional. Let me know<br>
if I can help. Best,<br>
<br>
Christian<br>
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