Comments on: PPD Files

By: Andreas

Andreas — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:41:37 +0000

Hallo,

i want to change the Name of the Printjob and save it on the printer without printing.
I change the Line in the ppd:

userdict /xerox$jobname () put
userdict /xerox$jobname (Testprint) put

and set the Jobtype to “save print” ,

but the Printer prints direkt without saving!?

Can anyone help pleas?

By: Samuel Briones

Samuel Briones — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 12:39:01 +0000

reposting with correct phrase….

hi,
until now i still could not follow the steps on how to disable banner sheet from the PPD files of a MAC. i tried to pull up and follow the path but it seems that the files are encrypted and i just could not see how i can set the following :
ColorDevice: False
DefaultColorSpace: Gray
DefaultJCLBanner: False

please help me with these issues as i get a lot of problems with a mac on this related configurations.

thanks
Nik

By: Samuel Briones

Samuel Briones — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 12:37:48 +0000

hi,
until now i still could follow the steps on how to disable banner sheet from the PPD files of a MAC. i tried to pull up and follow the path but it seems that the files are encrypted and i just could not see how i can set the following :
ColorDevice: False
DefaultColorSpace: Gray
DefaultJCLBanner: False

please help me with these issues as i get a lot of problems with a mac on this related configurations.

thanks
Nik

By: aaron

aaron — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 01:17:08 +0000

Glad it helped you out.

By: CBI

CBI — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:43:11 +0000

I had a related problem using Linux and the openprinting.org .ppd file for my Xerox Phaser 7750GX, in that my color print jobs would come out grayscale unless I manually forced them to “color”. I was leery of editing the .ppd file, but based upon the above article, I modified two lines:
*ColorDevice: True was False *DefaultColorSpace: RGB was Gray

Restarting cups then changed the default behaviour.