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Slipeer
Asked: 2017-01-26 05:05:14 +0800 CST

Way to force duplex printing on all Windows clients in domain

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I'm looking for a way to configure all of Windows clients in Active Directory domain so that they print all documents in duplex mode.

Serverfault has been similar questions:

But:

  • In my case, a lot of different printers (about 1000 at one site) and more customers.
  • Not all printers connected via Print Servers (in some cases directly connected printers)
  • Print job rendering always done on the client computers (otherwise will be long delays when printing)

What is tried:

  • Сhanging the default print settings in the print server had no impact on the print settings from workstations where the printer has already been connected.
windows group-policy printing

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I didn't tested it, but on Windows 8 and above you could create and push a powershell script that would look like that:

    Get-Printer | Set-PrintConfiguration -DuplexingMode TwoSidedLongEdge

    On Windows 7 Get-Printer is not defined, but you could bypass the problem with running a line like that in powershell to replace get-printer:

    Get-WMIObject -Class Win32_Printer | Select
Name,DriverName,PortName,Shared,ShareName | ft -auto
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