[MacTUG] More lpadmin (and lpoptions) fun ;-)

[Donald Duff-McCracken]

If you are looking to further tweak a printer, lpoptions can help out, but first you must install the printer to a client machine. Then if you issue the
Lpoptions –p printer_name –l
it will spew out a ton of options (eg 100 lines) for you to play with! ;-) It is just reading them from the PPD

For example, for these new BW/colour combo printers I want to have the default be grayscale. Buried in the output from the above command is”
XROutputColor/Xerox Black and White: Unspecified *PrintAsColor PrintAsGrayscale

So adding
-o XROutputColor=PrintAsGrayscale
to my lpadmin command ensures it will be so configured

From
http://www.grivet-tools.com/blog/2015/figuring-out-available-printer-options-in-the-command-line/


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Donald Duff-McCracken
Technical Services Manager
Mapping, Analysis & Design
Faculty of Environment
University of Waterloo
(519) 888-4567 x32151
https://uwaterloo.ca/environment-computing/about/people
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