Re: printing an article in black and white

[Katsumi Yamaoka]

Allan Gottlieb wrote:
> My fast printer is a black and white laser printer (HP P2055dn).

> From the summary buffer, gnus-summary-print-article prints the article
> with light colors printed in lighter grey.  This causes some to be
> nearly unreadable.

> Can I arrange for gnus to print all the characters in black (or at least
> no lighter than a fairly dark gray)?

Gnus uses ps-print.el that provides the `ps-print-color-p' user
option.  Maybe its value is `t' in your system.  How about altering
it as the following?

(setq ps-print-color-p 'black-white)
 or
(setq ps-print-color-p nil)

> I would then invoke this revised function when printing to the fast B&W
> and the normal gnus-summary-print-article when printing to the slower
> color all-in-one.