On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 11:54:14PM +0100, Bruno Boettcher wrote:
> Hello!
>
>
> by printing a pdf document i discovered that my printer is able, by
> reeating the sheet, to print double sided pages....
>
> but i can't find anywhere how to tell either latex, dvips or gs how to
> activate that behaviour??
The doubled sided printing has nothing to do with latex, dvips or gs,
it's a function of the printer. You feed the document, and the printers
prints consecutive pages. If you have a double sided printer _and_ the
right drivers, two pages go on one sheet. The crucial part here is to
have the driver (*.ppd). You need to drop the ppd into /etc/cups/ppd/
(IIRC), then you can create a new printer queue in cups. The new queue
is identical to the old one, except that you enable the double sided
behaviour. Just go to 'http://127.0.0.1:631/', everything can be done
from there. In the end you will have two queues on the same printer, one
for single, one for double sided printing.
Hth,
Andreas
>
> never got lpd or cups to work, they only produce gibberish like the one
> shown in http://bboett.free.fr/scan.jpg
> i use the exact same line as the one specifyed as input filter in
> /etc/printcap (for lpd) and it works.... hell knows why....
>
> thus i play myself spooler and launch from an ever open root term
> (bleargh...) the command by hand:
> /usr/bin/gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=alc4100 -sPAPERSIZE=a4
> -sOutputFile=/dev/lp0 ~bboett/print.ps
>
> thus i need the killer option to one fo those programs that triggers the
> double sided printing...
>
>
> --
> ciao bboett
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