Forced duplex printing to specific printers?

[Helge Blischke]

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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