We are a company that uses Sharp MFP devices for everyone to print on.
We have a lot of MAC BYOD devices.
All printing is done through a product called PaperCut which is ran on a Windows 2008 R2 server.
Sharp charges our company for each print job done in color (including grayscale), so we charge our agents (non employees) to print in color.
We have a process that the agents follow to install our Sharp printers on their MAC devices and the printer install uses a script like:
The issue is that most users have it setup to remember last settings on their printers, thus if they print color, then black and white, it still prints in color. The agents are getting charged for what should be black and white. Also all black and white jobs are printing in grayscale not black and white.
We can manually fix this by initiating CUPs and then making changes to CUPs for the correct print queues, but we have hundreds of queues and it could take us MONTHS to change everyone, and if they uninstall and reinstall the printers from the intranet they are back to printing color for free and getting us charged for black and white.
What is the process to add CUPs commands to the printer install or what other way can be tried to fix these issues.
Sorry if this is a n00b question, but I am NOT a Unix user in any way shape or form.
Have you checked the CUPS website? Their command-line documentation is very informative. You should be able to locate the options to perform your task.
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