[cups.general] Duplexing with Windows CUPS driver

[Michael R Sweet]

Adam Victor Brandizzi wrote:
> Hi, all!
> 
> We're making a Web-based print accouting software with CUPS. Most of the print clients are Windows boxes.
> 
> As far as we have seen, a good approach is to use the Windows CUPS driver from http://cups.org/windows/index.php in the clients. However, the driver apparently does not provide some required functionalities (specially duplexing). That is a surprise to us, since it seems the driver PPD should provide a interface to use such functionality.
> 
> How could we "enable" such functionalities, specially duplexing, on the CUPS driver? Is there a way to do it without make the client send raw jobs directly to the printer (which would make our software useless)?

The PPD file needs to include a Duplex option; unfortunately,
Microsoft does *not* use the defaults from the PPD file, so there is
no way to force duplex printing on by default via the PPD file...

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer