Bug#781253: cups: no duplex printing (two-sided) with lp or lpr

[Brian Potkin <claremont102@gmail.com>]

On Thu 26 Mar 2015 at 15:12:25 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:

> On 2015-03-26 15:00:02 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > When I print a PDF file with just "lpr file.pdf" or explicitly
> > two-sided with "lpr -o sides=two-sided-long-edge file.pdf", the
> > output is done only on one side of the paper. There's no such
> > problem with Evince (same machine, same printer).
> 
> Same problem with "lp" from cups-client. Since cups-bsd depends on
> cups-client, I'm reassigning the bug to cups-client. And raising
> to important since there seems to be no way to get duplex printing
> from the command line, which is a major problem for big documents.

Hello Vincent. Thank you for your report.

Please post what you get for 'lpoptions -l'.

Regards,

Brian.