Bug#687421: printer-driver-hpcups: cannot set reverse-order printing in ppd

[Sanjoy Mahajan <sanjoy@olin.edu>]

On 2017-10-30 13:19, Brian Potkin <claremont102@gmail.com> wrote:

>> The printer is an HP PSC 2710 all-in-one scanner/fax/inkjet printer.
>> I'm filing the bug against printer-driver-hpcups because the PPD has
>> this line:
>
> HP Photosmart 2700?

Pretty much -- it was actually a PhotoSmart 2710:

<https://support.hp.com/us-en/product/hp-photosmart-2700-all-in-one-printer-series/391138/model/391140/manuals>

> I reckon page management is more the province of the pdftopdf filter
> than the hpcups driver. Anyway, I set up a print queue and did (as
> root) on unstable:
>
>  cupsfilter -p /etc/cups/ppd/2700.ppd -m application/vnd.cups-pdf /etc/services > test.pdf
>
> with *DefaultOutputOrder: "reverse" in the PPD. The PDF shows the pages
> in reverse order. Perhaps you could actually print some small file to
> the printer, which I cannot do, to test this observation.

I wrote "was" above, because in the intervening years I gave away the
PSC 2710 (and now use a USB scanning stick for that functionality).  So,
I am in the same boat as you are.

-Sanjoy