[Wylug-help] CUPS printing

[John Hodrien]

On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Anne Wilson wrote:

> On Friday 06 Jun 2003 7:01 pm, you wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Anne Wilson" <cannewilson@tiscali.co.uk>
> > To: <wylug-help@wylug.org.uk>
> > Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 6:13 PM
> > Subject: [Wylug-help] CUPS printing
> >
> > > I have my printer set up under CUPS with 4 different
> > > names/configurations.  I would like to be able to use the
> > > Greyscale setting to use black ink only, to avoid the muddy grey
> > > that the colour cartridge gives.  The printer can do it - under
> > > windows - but I have found no way of doing it under CUPS.
> >
> > Sorry, can't help, but it might help others if you told us what
> > printer it is. Also the version of CUPS and OS.
> >
> > --
> > Ian Rutson
> > ian@rutson.co.uk
>
> Hi, Ian.  The printer is a HP DeskJet 990Cxi.  The os is Mandrake 9.1.
> CUPS is v.1.1.19.

Strange.  I've had a 960cxi setup at home with CUPS and it worked fine.
Conveniently, I also have a 990cxi setup in university, so I'll check what
I've done with that.  I don't remember any problems with black.

Which driver did you pick?  I'm currently using foomatic + gimp-print with it.

jh

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