printer default configuration: collate

[Carsten]

Hi all

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

BTW: Collate changes how copies are printed - 1,2,3,1,2,3,.. or 1,1,1,2,2,2,3,3,3 ...

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.

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).

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.

Thanks a lot.

Carsten