Clone users, multiple Macs

I am starting a roll-out of 35 or so iMacs to relplace XP machines. I would like to limit user app's, and settings. If I use parental control, and customize the user can I save or export the setting so I can use the same setting etc. to the other machines? Is this what copying the disk image is for? I would want to be able to use differt user names, workgroups, access to some prints, etc. Thanks for the read, any help would be great.

You need to give the newly created user accounts the same mcx_settings property in the NetInfo Manager to transfer the parental control settings; some of these settings are stored in places other than the NetInfo database. The NetInfo Manager is located in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder, and you can use a text file to store the property's contents for easier migration.
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