[cups.general] Duplexing with Windows CUPS driver
Michael R Sweet
msweet at apple.com
Sat Oct 25 11:43:24 PDT 2008
Adam Victor Brandizzi wrote:
> Michael R Sweet wrote:
>> 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...
>
> Thanks, Michael!
>
> BTW, is there some other way force duplex via the CUPS driver?
No, about the only thing you can do in CUPS 1.3.x is:
lpadmin -p printer -o sides-default=two-sided-long-edge
on the server. Then incoming jobs will use duplex by default,
although the client may still override it...
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Michael R Sweet Senior Printing System Engineer
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