Re: [Sheflug] Advanced printer driver settings

[James Mears <james [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 08 May 2003 12:25, Chris Johnson wrote:
> OK so my linux boxes print nicely.
> Now I want to tweak it.
> On my previous OS the drivers allow me to print multiple document pages per
> sheet of paper either directly from the driver or via a print q utility
> called fineprint (www.fineprint.com) allowing me to reduce my use of the
> worlds resources.  Is there an **easy** way to do this with Linux?

Hmm..

In Yast on SuSE 8.2 using CUPS I have many different printers installed for 
the same print device (using MS terminology I am afraid) and each one has a 
different setting such as photo_colour, draft_grayscale, draft_colour etc... 
When I want to print I can just select the required printer and I get the 
predetermined output. 

In fact when I installed the colour printer the Yast printer setup 
automatically created loads of different printers for greyscale, photo etc 
and I only had to tweak them a little for the settings that I wanted.

I also know that there is an option for the number of pages per sheet and also 
if you want a header page with the users name and filename etc. You can also 
print multipages per sheet by using programs such as OpenOffice.

Hope that helps a bit.

James


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