How set printer defaults for a printer

My motivation is to have my wife's new MacBook always print double-sided. Currently she needs to select the preset that we've made for printing duplex, but that's easy to forget to do.
OS is 10.4.7
Is there a way to set the printer defaults in this OS?
I want to have duplex just be the default, even after reboot, and if she wants to print single-sided then she'd need to select the other preset.
BTW: If it makes a difference -- We're using a Xerox 8550DP, for which the duplex selection is in the standard place of Print -> Layout -> Two-sided -> Long-edged binding
(Some other printers require using the duplex selection in their own printer's section under that Copies & Pages dropdown menu but not this one.)
Maybe I'm just not a very good searcher. I searched many here, MacFixit, MacWorld magazine, generally on the web. Looked in my David Pogues's Tiger book and Andy Ihnatko's Tiger book. I came up with nothing about setting printer defaults at all.
I bet I can tweek it in a pref file. I hope I don't have to resort to a hack to do something this standard.
Any help or pointers would be greatly appreciated!
PB G4, MacMini (Tiger Server), MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.5)

I think you can do this. Set up a two-sided setting,
and save it. Print with it. Then find the preference
file com.apple.print.custompresets.plist, choose Get
Info, and lock it.
If you want to save another setting, you will have to
unlock it.
Hey this is only a workaround but it is a pretty darned good workaround, especially because it's not too invasive (only locking a pref file at the user level) and what's stored in that custompresets.plist file is com.apple.print.lastPresetPref, which is probably the key to your suggestion. I think I understand it, anyway.
I followed that procedure, created a Custom Preset with duplex turned on which I named "Standard Duplex", then locked the file you suggest that's in my user's home Library. It survived app switching and a reboot. It seems to work great, and I can still use the Standard setting as well if I want to. I even chose the custom setting and although it's locked the temp changes I made were enacted (I chose to print this page, scaled to fit a #10 envelope) and that worked too. The Standard or other presets can still be chosen when you want to use those, and the app remembers the last setting through the rest of the session, it's just that upon opening an app the default is now my custom "Standard Duplex". This does what I want.
I think this is a great workaround. I'm going to go load it onto my wife's MacBook. I suppose I should mark this solved even though there's no real, y'know, user-manual way to do this. Maybe something I'll just hope is a feature in Leopard.
Thank you Bruce and all the other helpful folks who pondered on this one! Heh, I'm sure 1/2 of the tree population thanks you too.
PB G4, Mac Mini G4, MacBook Pro, MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.7)

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