Printing: draft or economy mode

Support knowledgebase (ke_print-draft)
Applies to

SuSE Linux: All versions

Request:

You want to use the economy mode for your printer.

Prerequisite:

You use a Ghostscript driver which provides an appropriate parameter setting to switch the printer to draft or economy mode.

Procedure:

If you configure the printer using YaST2 such parameters can be set depending on the selected Ghostscript driver.
Up to SuSE Linux 7.3 see the article Installing a printer with SuSE Linux 6.4 and since SuSE Linux 8.0 see the "Reference" manual.

Up to SuSE Linux 7.3 :
If you use SETUP (respectively lprsetup) to configure your printer according to the article Installing a printer you have to enter the driver specific parametes in an appropriate /etc/apsfilterrc... file - see: Installing a printer with SuSE Linux 6.4


See also:
o Installing a Printer
o Installing a printer since SuSE Linux 6.4 and up to 7.3
o Which DeskJet driver should I use?

Keywords: DRAFT, PRINTING, ECONOMY, QUALITY, GHOSTSCRIPT

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