Canon? ... WHAT IS THE PRINTER PERFERENCES CONTROL SUPREMACY LOGIC???
This is a Canon Engineering Design policy Flaw....
Canon technical support currently claims that the Print Driver has supremacy and you cannot edit the default print policy.
This is flawed... you have to allow the customer to optionally determine a default print policy ... so make it editable at the driver install level... and be the default at the system level for all users.... plus change the logic to make the physical printer preferences supreme.. If the customer sets the physical printer Registration, that cannot be overrode by the printer driver…
What is needed from Canon is the official design flow chart for supremacy of control of Duplex printing… & other printer preferences… & the logic behind Print driver vs physical printer preferences supremacy… with a challenge to that design policy decision & to allow the customer to control the default printer preferences.
The printer doesn’t obey turning off 2-sided printing at the printer… (A major design decision flaw by Canon engineering…)
I am MIS at a business where I purchased multiple Canon Imageclass LBP6780dn - duplex capable printers … Some for our shipping department to generate shipping papers, pick tickets, pack slips, Bill of Ladings, shipping Manifests, International shipping documents & FedEx/UPS Hazmat Shipping certification documents…
Hence the requirement to print single sided & DOT compliance Shipping Documents…
Physical Printer Registration Setting/ Preferences:
At the printer control panel or via the remote UI… System Manger Control Menu, Settings/Registration Preferences: Paper Source Menu … via Edit there is an option to set 2-sided settings on/off, via a check box & save…
Power Cycle the printer & re-verify that the 2-sided settings is off (uncheck)…
This is our example.
Issue: Print driver default profile (non-editable) supremacy
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- Default print driver profile…Supremacy overrides Physical Printer Registration Setting/ Preferences
OS: Microsoft Windows 7 & XP Professional …
Print Driver: Canon LBP6780/3580 UFR II drive…
Driver profile: … Default Settings; Finishing; Print Style: 2-sided Printing
Overrides the Physical Printer Registration Setting/ Preferences…
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- For each user’s login profile on every system where the print driver is installed requires changing away from the default print driver profile to a custom Canon print driver profile setting to select 1-sided printing…via their individual printing preferences setup…
This is an issue, because we use additionally multiple Citrix remote login sessions for access to different centrally published applications in a NON-AD environment… without a Windows policy hierarchy.
Even in this extremely inconvenience configuration, we are finding printing sometimes doesn’t obey the preference settings and revert to the default 2-side printing setting…
The results is a lack of certainty & control of the printing environment when using Canon printer products…
Canon? … WHAT IS THE CONTROL SUPREMACY LOGIC???
We also found a duplex Bug ... where when you select to print 2 copies of a single sided printout the printer prints the 2 copies on a single duplex printed sheet....