Comment 5 for bug 303682

As already said options now always appear. With some printers I get the media size option repeated twice (notably an HP inkjet), I think it still happens, I'll double check as soon as I have that printer at hand.

The biggest problem however remains in the huge regression in functionality in the print system from the 3.5 series. The QT printing framework is very poor. That useless "margins" thing taking half of the print dialogue as if it were the most important thing and that only confuses users is driving me crazy. What I find really very bad is that all the options to help users saving paper are gone. No n-up printing, no odd-even page selection that is necessary to do "manual duplex" on non duplex printers.

Kde4 is quite nice, it is eventually getting stable, but all the effort seems to go in the effects+translucency+animation thing and offices end up using twice the amount of resources (this time paper) because the fundamentals (this time the print system) do not look to be fashionable these days.

Coming back to the point, restoring proper functionality in the print system was in the roadmap for kde4.3, but I believe that it has been cancelled. At least, to the best of my knowledge, there is no trace of it in the betas. Looks like we will have to wait for the QT camp to come up with something.

The good news it that there is now a repository with kde 3.5.10 for jaunty, so one can take kdeprint from there.
I would really wormly recommend kubuntu to do that by default in 9.10, because having to add the repo manually and dealing with the dependencies of the kde 3.5.10 print system can be hard for non-expert users.
What I see that most users do when they need to duplex on non duplex printers is now to print to PDF and then to use acrobat reader do do the real printing since acrobat reader has the odd-even page selection thing.