Force collation as default in Print dialogue (oo2.0.x linux)

gbilly · Newbie Joined: 28 Feb 2008 Posts: 1

If I set the "Copies" print option to 2 for a one page document, CUPS only logs 1 page. The printer prints the correct number of copies but the logging is important. Other applications (i.e. Firefox and Adobe Reader) are correctly logged.
However, if the Collate option is selected, the number of copies are correctly tallied. Is it possible to force collation for all multi-copy prints.
Thanks,
G

crxssi · Posted: Fri May 15, 2009 8:32 am Post subject:

Well, you got your wish. They made it the default with no system administrator control and with no memory.

Now it is a MAJOR problem for us. Our printers will always collate automatically when it is unchecked. The small job is just repeated in the printer, quickly and efficiently.

Now that the default in OO is to always have "collate on", my users just go with the default setting. When a user requests 100 copies of a 50MB document, OO now sends 5,000MB of data to the printer. It causes tremendous waste of CPU (we are centralized with thin clients) and tremendous waste of network bandwidth. It also slows down the printing process.

I can't find a way to change the default to OFF like it used to be before OO 3.X. We need an environment variable or a way to hack the config files in the installation directory.