Mass Deployment of Duplexing drivers for printers

[edgar]

hey guys, i need a hand on this one. i been asked, by my boss to figure out
a way to overide users existing printers (or print drivers). we want to
conserve on wasting so much paper. so they decided to have all users change
their printer settings to use duplexing (for the printers that have duplexing
capabilities). out users are on windows xp sp2 and log in to a windows 2003
AD domain.

thanks in advance,

 

[Alan Morris [MSFT]]

Are the users connecting to a print server?

Change the Printing Defaults on the advanced tab of printer properties.

New connections will get this as the default setting but the users can still
change their own settings. You would need to delete existing connections
and reconnect to pick this as the default.



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Windows Printing Team
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[edgar]

Yes, we are using a printer server (on windows 2003 r2).

 

[Alan Morris [MSFT]]

Setting the printer default settings to duplex is the best way to accomplish
this but the users have a device mode setting locally that will be used
first. By default the user devmode is the same as the printer devmode.

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Alan Morris
Windows Printing Team
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