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Managing printer default settings
When a printer gets installed, certain default settings are automatically set based on what capabilities
are available from the device. These default settings include items such as default paper size and
type, simplex, or single side printing, and portrait or landscape printing. In many printing environments
it is common for printing administrators to change the default settings. Some of the more common
changes are to enable printing on both sides of the paper (duplex) and to print in grayscale.
There are many ways to change or pre-configure these default settings and some are discussed in
other chapters of this Systems Administrator's Guide. This section primarily discusses how these new
default settings are deployed and how to manage or provide firmer controls on changes allowed to
these default settings.
Default settings and changes are not managed
Other sections in this document describe the use and procedures for changing the default settings in
both a Point and Print and Direct IP Printing environments. Please refer to the sections on DCU,
DDU, and install.exe for specific instructions on how to use these tools.
It is important to understand that changes to the printing default settings are at most temporary and
basically not managed. Users have the ability in both Direct IP Printing and Point and Print
environments to change the default settings on their printers through the Printing preferences tab. In
some cases, depending on company policies, a centralized management approach is necessary to
ensure that the default settings are not changed.
Manage default settings with HP MPA
HP Managed Printing Administration and Active Directory templates offer ways to ensure that the
default settings are maintained and managed. When using HP MPA, policy settings are vended down
to the clients and stored in a cache that the HP UPD printer driver refers to. The refresh rate inside
the HP MPA policy determines how often the HP UPD refers to the policy settings. This solution
ensures that the default settings are maintained throughout the printing environment.
Manage default settings with Active Directory templates
HP’s solution for printer policy settings using an existing Active Directory environment is to use the
Active Directory administrative templates inside each of the group policy objects. This template also
allows an administrator to set some defaults for duplex, and grayscale printing. These policies are
pushed locally into the users registry and referred to during printing. This has the effect of constantly
refreshing the users default setting so each time a user prints the correct default settings are present.
Policies are pushed to the client PCs. This has the effect of refreshing the default printer settings
automatically.
Please refer to the sections on using HP MPA and the Active Directory templates for further
information.
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