On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 12:41 PM, John Doe <jdmls@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Janez Kosmrlj <postnalista@googlemail.com>
>Has anyone an idea, how to force users to print b/w on a color printer.
>We are in the process to deploy color printers to some of our offices where they
>
>use centos 5.5 as their OS. They need the printers to print some advertisement
>material. But for everything else, they don't need it. And because of the costs

>of the color printing we would like to force them to use B/W where not
>explicitly necessary. Is there a way to force  a printer driver to be just B/W
>even if it is a color printer. So i could install a second color printer which
>would only be available to a special print user.

Google says:
http://osdir.com/ml/printing.pykota.user/2006-04/msg00098.html

JD



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I know what google says, but i don't know what to do with it. This sounds like some kind of rocket science to me.

The answer from Dale sounds more doable to me, and i have to test it.