Forced duplex printing to specific printers?

[Anonymous]

I was searching for a similar solution out of similar reasons ..

Only question i have here as a non native english speaker:

Does DUPLEX mean printing on both papersides (if printer supports it) or
is this the 2 pages 90 degrees turned and rescaled on one page ?

peter No_Spam_fromweb at vuc.mine.nu

Helge Blischke wrote:
> demian at csbs.utah.edu wrote:
> >
> > Hello All,
> >
> > I'm writing to findout if CUPS has a wee bit of functionality that I can't seem to find/make work using lpfilter. I'd like to be able to force all print jobs sent to a specific queue to be printed in duplex mode.
> >
> > I host printing for several student labs and would like to save a little on paper costs. I haven't been able to find any specific filter examples that show how to force duplex printing. Is this possible at the server level or do I have to rely on the print client to manage these tasks?
> >
> > Any suggestions/pointers will be greatly appreciated!
> >
> > -d
>
> You may easily create a print queue (a "printer" in CUPS speech) which
> is configured to print
> duplex by default (use the configure printer option from the web
> interface).
> And you can add a job patch file into the PPD that disables any duplex
> setting but the
> first one from the print job (i.e. only the default defined in the PPD
> gets executed).
>
> Helge
>
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