Konica Minolta C6501 is converting greyscale pdfs to color

[nwpmikey]

Hi Ubertech..

when i go to the exceptions tab on our creo i can see nowhere to tell certain pages to be greyscale.. any ideas on this please..... as it would be useful..we have the IC304P running on a KM 6501

You could go thru some complicated method of converting your PDF's to colour and still find they print in colour. The best and 100% full proof method is to use the media manager in the fiery or exceptions in the creo to specfiy which pages are grey only. It is pretty easy to specify pages much the same as a any dtp package like 1,2,3,4,18-20,35 etc etc.

[UberTech]

It is quite different on the creo. Are you on my mailing list? I will send a tip in the next couple of days.

[nwpmikey]

It is quite different on the creo. Are you on my mailing list? I will send a tip in the next couple of days.

Hi yes i am on the mailing list for the tips book.. cheers..

[orielwen]

Sorry to resurrect this old thread, but I'm having exactly the same problem on a Bizhub 252 using VPS – is there a similar facility there for specifying the colour mode on a per-page basis?

[ChrisD]

I have had the same problem in the past but cured it as follows;
If you have a large PDF file, use the preflight in the menu under tools or advanced, it is in Acrobat 9. There is a setting for digital black & white, you can set the dpi etc. the file will come out as a greyscale click.

I often get booklets with mixed colour & greyscale, I just put the colour pages into the greyscale PDF.
Another method is to use something like primopdf to convert your PDF into another PDF using the grescale print option, although this method isn't 100% - it depends how desperate you are.

I usually have success using these methods,

[orielwen]

Thanks Chris. I can create a greyscale version no problem, but the trouble comes when there are colour pages mixed in. Are you suggesting converting the colour to greyscale? because this isn't an option for me.

[ChrisD]

It is a bit of trial and error, but if I have a few suggestions for you.
Make the greyscale 192 page pdf,
try printing a few pages of this document first to make sure the counter clocks it as a greyscale click when switched to colour print.
If it still gives you a colour click, then try this;
When you open the print dialog in Acrobat, there is an advanced option button, where there are a few tickboxes about colour management, something like ; No colour management, printer manages colour, Adobe manages the colour, try printing a few greyscale pages again, check the click charge each time, it only takes a couple of minutes.
If this makes a difference then carry on as follows;

Open the colour PDF alongside the greyscale pdf of the same document, so you can see the two files on screen. Use the thumbnails on the left side, Drag the colour page across to the greyscale document into the identical position, delete the greyscale page.
Do this for as many pages as you need to, I do this several times a week and it works fine, but once you get the hang of it things will work out.

[orielwen]

Thanks for that! I'll give it a try and let you know how I get on.

[lexcreate]

Hi,

I discovered that I had to specify greyscale vs. colour pages in the fiery set-up. Someone actually uploaded a screenshot of what it looks like at the initial start of the thread. It's under the mixed media tab. That did work.

[orielwen]

Copying pages over into a greyscale version of the PDF worked a treat! A bit of a faff but, as you say, easy enough once you get the hang of it. Many thanks Chris!