Right after I clicked "send" I got a complaint that people were getting Black and White printouts. In my testing, the machines I tried did not pick up the duplex and B&W defaults, either from removing/re-adding the printer, or on a newly installed machine. Apparently what I was doing worked for some people. I then saw that there is a separate "Printing Defaults" button at the bottom of the "Advanced" tab on the printer properties. This appears to be where you are supposed to set this type of default settings. It brings up the same screen as the "printing preferences" button, but apparently this is where you are supposed to set defaults. I'll do some more testing now and see how reliably clients are picking up the new setting.
From: Alverson, Tom (Xetron) [mailto:tom.alver...@ngc.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 11:27 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Print Server default all users to duplex? I am trying to make the default settings for printers on my Windows 2003 print server set for duplex and B&W (on color printers) for cost savings. I know this had worked once in the past when I changed the "printing preferences" on the print server, but I was using a "standard" print driver at the time. Now I have switched to the HP and Xerox "Universal" print drivers and neither one seems to push those defaults to new clients who attach to those print queues. Is there some other way I should be setting these defaults? Tom ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
