Re: how to get duplex for Brother HL-5150D
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 16:30 +0200, Nicos Gollan wrote:
> On Friday April 8 2005 15:51, michael wrote:
> > I've looked about, unsuccessfully, to find out how to get duplex
> > printing on the Brother HL-5150D printer which is capable of duplex.
> > I've added the printer to CUPS using the web interface and have tried
> > setting 'Double-Sided Printing' option in CUPS to 'long side' but that
> > doesn't seem to help. None of lpr a postscript file nor printing from
> > Mozilla results in double sided output.
>
> Printing from Mozilla is a matter of luck more than anything (either xprint or
> its interface to Mozilla sucks). Generally, when using lpr directly, you
> might need to pass the appropriate job option, like
>
> lpr -o Duplex=DuplexNoTumble file.ps
> lpr -o Duplex=DuplexTumble file.ps
>
Strange, the latter of these was working for plain .ps files (eg never
sorted it for duplex from Mozilla) but now it seems to be just single
sided whatever I try. I've done the occasional apt-get update/upgrade,
booted into WinXP, powered the machine down, so is there a way of
determining if any of them may have altered something?
Mr Confused
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