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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

> Printing a web page from inside Netscape/Mozilla/Opera prints 
> everything (fonts, graphics, whatever) exactly as it appears 
> on the screen.  Even on my ancient dotmatrix printer, I get 
> a very nice copy of the screen.
> 
> Cheers,
> Steven

I was going to print from Opera (as user) but got sort of distracted when
I discovered that I get a different window manager when running as user
(twm?) and forgot to print after I changed preferences for Opera (which
are apparently different for root and user).  I should probably copy over 
.xinitrc from /root/ to /home/user/ if I want things to look the same.

Then I loaded xv and found an image (a gif from gimp) and displayed it and
did Print.  It had a line with lpr and instructions to type 'lpr -Pname '
for printing with unix.  I tried that and got an error message and then
tried not typing in -Pname (assuming I would get a default printer) and it
printed the image.  I clicked on B/W to print the colored image and it
printed B/W.  We print everything in black because we bought two quarts of 
black inkjet ink to refill our cartridges with.

So you can use gs/xv to print images in monochrome even if they are color
images.  

I was unable to print color pdf files with gs directly (in DOS)
on a non-color printer.  The trick was to use a color printer without a
color cartridge in it, or convert to ps and delete the lines specifying
color (I forget how - change some numbers for rgb?).  

Is there some way to print a color pdf file on a non-color printer using 
lpd and printcap?

I have tried converting color pdf files to mono image files but you lose
detail that way.