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Re: Making duplex via LPROPT the default for new accounts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Oliver Thomas)
Tue Apr 15 18:04:40 2008
From: Oliver Thomas <othomas@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
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Thanks Jon. I think we'll want to keep header pages on by default. I
did run that by SAVE, and while there's still reluctance, they are
okay with it. They ran a printing survey for students last spring
which also showed a preference for keeping header pages on (and for
making duplex the default).
Oliver
On Apr 15, 2008, at 5:59 PM, Jonathan Reed wrote:
> To clarify, I meant creating a .environment in protoype_user, where
> none currently exists, that has the following:
>
> # The following line sets double-sided printing as the default
> setenv LPROPT -Zduplex
>
> For bonus points, to we want to muck with the idea of adding "-h" to
> LPROPT as well? I know where the SAVE folks stand on this, but I
> think a lack of header pages causes people's jobs to get lost,
> especially on the high volume cluster printers. I don't really
> care either way.
>
> -Jon
