Re: How to print duplex when using lpr

["Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 11:27 AM, Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> wrote:

On Thu, 11 Dec 2014, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> I sometimes use lpr in a pipeline getting postscript from groff. My
> printer (HP CP2025dn) has a duplexer and I'd like to use it. I could
> look up the Postscript for that, but I'm wondering if there's a way to
> force either of groff or lpr to do it for me.

If you're using cups, you can do the following:

lp -o sides=two-sided-long-edge filename;

man lp; for details.

Nice.  Works on lpr too, but the man page doesn't show it.

Thanks.

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