Print drivers

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I have a print server with a driver installed. The server is running as a
cluster. I have changed one of the settings in Printing preferences to print
duplex and this works fine from the server. When I have pulled the driver
over to the clients the driver not not have the Duplex tick box ticked and
does not print duplex. Does antbody know why the setting is not coming across
to the clients?
 
Re: Print drivers

>I have a print server with a driver installed. The server is running as a
>cluster. I have changed one of the settings in Printing preferences to print
>duplex and this works fine from the server. When I have pulled the driver
>over to the clients the driver not not have the Duplex tick box ticked and
>does not print duplex. Does antbody know why the setting is not coming across
>to the clients?

This is just a hunch but take a look and ensure that you're modifying
the settings from the Advanced tab > Printing Defaults setting and not
from the Printing Preferences settings.

- Thee Chicago Wolf
 
Re: Print drivers

Thanks that worked. It was strange because i made the setting on 5 different
drivers and it worked only on one. I changed the setting on the
advanced-printing defaults and the setting would not change until i ticked
the box in printing preferences as well. As soon as they were both ticked
this worked fine. Strange.

"Thee Chicago Wolf" wrote:

> >I have a print server with a driver installed. The server is running as a
> >cluster. I have changed one of the settings in Printing preferences to print
> >duplex and this works fine from the server. When I have pulled the driver
> >over to the clients the driver not not have the Duplex tick box ticked and
> >does not print duplex. Does antbody know why the setting is not coming across
> >to the clients?
>
> This is just a hunch but take a look and ensure that you're modifying
> the settings from the Advanced tab > Printing Defaults setting and not
> from the Printing Preferences settings.
>
> - Thee Chicago Wolf
>
 
Re: Print drivers

>Thanks that worked. It was strange because i made the setting on 5 different
>drivers and it worked only on one. I changed the setting on the
>advanced-printing defaults and the setting would not change until i ticked
>the box in printing preferences as well. As soon as they were both ticked
>this worked fine. Strange.

One of those oddball things I guess. Glad it worked for you though!

- Thee Chicago Wolf
 
Re: Print drivers

As I understand it, the design concept is:

1. The Properties, Advanced, Printing Defaults sets the default Printing
Preferences for the printer object on the print server.

2. When a user's session first connects to a printer, these default settings
are copied to the user's profile on the client computer. After that, if the
user changes their Preferences (right click the printer, select Printing
Preferences) they will update their own copy - this change is persistent.
Changing the user's Preferences in this way does not change the default
settings for the printer on the print server. This also applies to users
logged on at the print server (e.g. printer administrators).

A corollary of 2 is that changing the default settings on the print server
(see 1) does not necessarily change the Printing Preferences set by a user
that has previously had a "connection" to the printer.

My experience is that printer drivers can be very idiosyncratic, not all the
printer driver builders build to the same "standard" and so some printer
drivers do behave differently.

--
Bruce Sanderson
http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders

It is perfectly useless to know the right answer to the wrong question.



"Dab" <Dab@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks that worked. It was strange because i made the setting on 5
> different
> drivers and it worked only on one. I changed the setting on the
> advanced-printing defaults and the setting would not change until i ticked
> the box in printing preferences as well. As soon as they were both ticked
> this worked fine. Strange.
>
> "Thee Chicago Wolf" wrote:
>
>> >I have a print server with a driver installed. The server is running as
>> >a
>> >cluster. I have changed one of the settings in Printing preferences to
>> >print
>> >duplex and this works fine from the server. When I have pulled the
>> >driver
>> >over to the clients the driver not not have the Duplex tick box ticked
>> >and
>> >does not print duplex. Does antbody know why the setting is not coming
>> >across
>> >to the clients?
>>
>> This is just a hunch but take a look and ensure that you're modifying
>> the settings from the Advanced tab > Printing Defaults setting and not
>> from the Printing Preferences settings.
>>
>> - Thee Chicago Wolf
>>
 
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