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[recycler99uk]

I have Lucid Puppy 528 and a HP Deskjet930c printer.

The printer is installed and does print stuff.

But how do I set it up so that it prints in black in draft mode unless I tell it otherwise please?

Colour cartridges get rapidly used up - I prefer printing in black and white only.

This particularly applies to printing web-pages.

Thanks

Edit: I found something about HPLIP which is said to be already present in many Linux distributions: http://www.openprinting.org/printer/HP/HP-DeskJet_930C http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html If it is present, how do I activate it please?

I have tried typing in the suggested command to find out if HPLIP is already present but just get an error message.

[sfeeley]

I don't have a color printer, so I'm only guessing . . .

but maybe

go to setup --> cups printer wizard --> administration --> manage printers --> choose the printer --> administration --> choose default options.

[rcrsn51]

Open the CUPS wizard.

In CUPS 1.4 .....

Click the Printers tab.

Select your printer.

Click on Administration.

Select Set Default Options.

[Dewbie]

With Windows XP, I had the same problem with two HP printers.
(psc 1110 and C4480)

When I set them to print in black and white, they would auto-default back to color.

So I just remove the color cartridge, and everything works fine.

[recycler99uk]

Unfortunately my HP Deskjet930c refuses to print (even in b&w) without a fully functioning colour cartridge in place. I spent all afternoon trying to coax it to print, without success.

The problem is that unless it is prevented from printing in colour, I have to keep buying expensive new colour cartridges even when I dont want to print in colour.

I tried switching off colour in the way suggested above, but the best I could do was get it to print in greyscale. Nor were any of the maintenance options offered. So I think it essential that I download HPLIP.

Does anyone know how I download, install, and activate HPLIP please?

Thanks

[sfeeley]

[rcrsn51]