We have a variety of Konica-Minolta and Ricoh mfd-type printers, driven from a Windows Server 2012R2 print server. The clients are Windows 7 x64. Latest print drivers are installed on the server and downloaded to the workstations using "Point and Print" when the user connects a printer. We do not use Group Policy Preference to connect printers because we found that it leads to very extended login times (several minutes).
The business requires us to default everyone's prints to double-sided grey-scale and I have set this under "printing defaults" for all the printers, on the print server.
My problem is that the workstations do not respect the defaults set on the server. When a user connects a printer, it's quite likely to set itself to single-sided, colour, and if the user makes any change, that change is remembered. The defaults never...