Comment 8 for bug 905147

Version: (using Devel)
OS: Linux
Installed from: Compiled sources

There needs to be some way to have persistent printer settings. From looking around on the web, it seems like:

* KDE 4 wants to use whatever Qt provides
* Qt does not seem to provide any useful printer settings tools

The current situation is that KDE defaults to non-duplex color printing, and completely ignores existing printer settings e.g. from CUPS (fun enough, it still exposes those settings in the advanced printer setup), making it necessary to re-select those settings. This is *not* a wishlist issue, this is instead a regression from pretty much any KDE 3.

The most convenient solution would of course be an applet in systemsettings.

To get with the expected behavior bulletpoint:
 (1) Start System Settings tool
 (2) Choose "Printers" or something similar
 (3) Be able to configure standards for all settings available in the normal KDE print dialog

Alternatively:
 (1) KDE uses defaults from underlying print system, e.g. CUPS