[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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