Use the Expanded Print Dialog By Default

This is the default print dialog in Leopard:

If you click the big blue arrow, the dialogue expands into this:

This post is about making the second dialogue appear by default instead of the first one. Just enter this Terminal.app command:

defaults write -g PMPrintingExpandedStateForPrint -bool TRUE
To change back to the small print dialogue, retype the command replacing “TRUE” with “FALSE”

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