printer default configuration: collate

[Carsten]

Carsten wrote:
> Hi all
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> I'm looking for a way how to configure the 'collate' option to be true
> - by default (user may change that)
> - for all printers (if that is possible)
> - which is not done via saving ~/.lpoptions

On a per Host basis, this is done by user root:

lpoptions -o Collate=True

But is there a way to set this network wide ?


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> BTW: Collate changes how copies are printed - 1,2,3,1,2,3,.. or 1,1,1,2,2,2,3,3,3 ...
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> A quick and extremely dirty way may be: write the file ~/.lpoptions with all <printers> Collate=True and copy that file to all users home directories.
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> Another way maybe to change the PPD File and set Collate=True. This doesn't work for me with a HP LJ 4050 PPD (HPDefaultCollate=True).
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> How does CUPS does 'collate' ? An inkjet printer probably has not enough memory to print a 100page document twice from the own memory. In that way, CUPS probably generate a printfile which conatins every page two times.
> On the other side, postscript printers perhaps can do that by their own.
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> Thanks a lot.
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> Carsten
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