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).
Not got this to print duplex yet but at least with the Brother printer I
can print direct and get 1:1 whereas for the HP printer I was getting
1/4 prints!
> 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
Yes, that seems to work (the latter, not tried the former); thanks.
>
> > As a secondary concern, although I've set this printer to default under
> > CUPS it doesn't seem to be the default for lpq or Mozilla... will this
> > change upon a reboot or have I missed something?
To answer, my own Q, I am running Gnome so had to also set default
printer in (GnomeMenu) Applications-Desktop Preferences-System
Tools-Printing
>
> Also, make sure you have the cupsys-bsd package installed. It provides
> versions of the BSD tools like lpr that use the CUPS configuration.
>
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Michael Bane
Atmospheric Physics Group
University of Manchester
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