Changing the printer settings
Support knowledgebase (mmichna_prinersettings)
Applies to
SuSE Linux: Version 7.1
This article refers to an older version of SuSE Linux.
Therefore some of the informations given in this article may
be outdated or the article may contain stale links.
Request:
You would like to change the printer settings for one of the following
reasons:
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The printer prints only in black and white.
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The color (driver) do not correspond to your desires.
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The settings of the ASCII-Text printing do not correspond to your desires.
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The encoding of the printed documents is wrong.
Procedure:
You don't need to reinstall the printer. You can change the entire
printer configuration via the YaST2-Printer setup (please read the notes
in the text field (on the left side) during you use YaST2 and you should
read the chapter 6 in the configuration manual too).
1. YaST2
Start the YaST2-Printer configuration and choose the printer which
should be modified. Now choose the button <Edit>.
1.1. Changing the color settings
- select the driver in the upper frame
- in the lower frame the possible drivers are displayed (if several
drivers are possible)
- choose the driver and print the testpage. If the desired color print
is achieved, press the button <Next> twice and then the button
<Finish>.
- Now press the button <Finish> and confirm the storage of the
modification with "Yes".
1.2. Modify the settings of the ascii-text
- choose the button <Next>
- select one of the appropriate options in the frame "Hardware
independent settings" and print the testpage. If the desired printout is
achieved, press the button <Next> and then the button
<Finish>.
- Now press the button <Finish> and confirm the storage of the
modification with "Yes".
1.3. Changing the encoding of the printed documents
- choose the button <Next>
- select one of the options from the "Encoding of the printed
documents" and print the testpage. If the desired printout is
achieved, press the button <Next> and then the button
<Finish>.
- Now press the button <Finish> and confirm the storage of the
modification with "Yes".
Keywords: PRINTER, 7.1, COLOR, SETTINGS, YAST2, CHANGE, B/W
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