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

[Brian Potkin <claremont102@gmail.com>]

On Wed 29 Apr 2015 at 17:27:38 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:

> On 2015-04-29 15:27:17 +0100, Brian Potkin wrote:
> > One way I got my printer to work with a foomatic driver was to set up a
> > queue with "-o pdftops-renderer-default=pdftops". That option isn't open
> > to you but how does
> > 
> >    lp -d <queue> -o pdftops-renderer=pdftops babel-bib.pdf
> > 
> > turn out?
> 
> It prints on A4 in duplex.

Having to switch renderer to get a satisfactory printout is usually an
indication of a problem with the printer not dealing with valid
PostScript rather than the filtering system.

Regards,

Brian.