printer default configuration: collate

[Helge Blischke]

Carsten wrote:
> 
> Carsten wrote:
> > 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
> 
> 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 ?
> 
> >
> > 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.
> >

Does the web interface, when configuring the printer(s), offer the
collate option
(maybe using the localized keyword, if present)?

And, within the PPD, it should read "DefaultHPCollate", otherwise CUPS
probably
wouldn't recognize it.

Helge


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