RE: [Sheflug] Advanced printer driver settings

["Chris Johnson" <chris [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'd seen the multiple Q's but didn't know if there was a multiple pages per
sheet Q option.  That will be interesting, a q for each printer and for each
of those a q for each resolution and for each a colour option and for each a
2/4/8 page per sheet option!  With 2 printers my maths makes that 24 queues!

eeek

ChrisJ


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[mailto:shef-lug-admin [at] list.sheflug.org.uk]On Behalf Of James Mears
Sent: 08 May 2003 12:40
To: shef-lug [at] list.sheflug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Sheflug] Advanced printer driver settings


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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