Unable to print in black and white on Canon Pixma G1000

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droidzone
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Unable to print in black and white on Canon Pixma G1000

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I'm on Ubuntu 16.04, latest Turboprint
Printer: Canon Pixma G1000
Added printer, created a duplicate printer and changed Colour mode to Grayscale. Saved it.
But on printing to this printer profile, it's still printing in color.
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I'm printing from Foxit reader, and it shows this line under options:

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lpr -P CanonG1000_BW -o PageSize=A4 -o sides=one-sided -o Resolution=1200dpi
Kindly help me fix this. My printer does not have driver from Canon, so I'm definitely getting a paid license.
zedonet
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Re: Unable to print in black and white on Canon Pixma G1000

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Hello,

after changing Colour mode to Grayscale, please enter the following command in a Terminal window:

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lpoptions -p CanonG1000_BW
The output should contain

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ColorModel=Gray
If not, please enter

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lpoptions -p CanonG1000_BW -o ColorModel=Gray
Please let me know if this helps.
droidzone
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Re: Unable to print in black and white on Canon Pixma G1000

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Thanks. That output wasnt present. I added that and it works correctly now. Thank you.

Turboprint works very well with G1000. Can I hope that the support with G2000 too is as good? I'm planning to upgrade to G2000 soon.
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Re: Unable to print in black and white on Canon Pixma G1000

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Yes, TurboPrint also supports the G2000 in the same quality (from the printer side, the G1000 and G2000 are identical).
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