Re: Okular vs printer, okular 1, printer 0
On Wednesday 25 February 2015 12:54:08 Brian wrote:
> On Wed 25 Feb 2015 at 10:00:01 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > May I remind everyone that the cups "test page" is ONE page, and
> > therefore cannot, will not, exercise the duplex functions. A 2 page test
> > page would be handier than bottled beer for troubleshooting this, but we
> > don't have one
>
> /etc/X11/Xsession is an excellent 2 page test page. Recommended.
Now I am getting somewhere, I just printed the, double sided with
lp -dNetwork_printer /etc/X11/Xsession
And with this command (after I re-enabled duplex long edge binding)
lp -dHL3170CDW /etc/X11/Xsession
This is 2 separate cups printers, the first one is at an ip address on my
local network, the latter one is via the USB cable.
This printer also has a wifi interface, but I figured two ways to drive it was
enough. The ethernet data transfer phase is faster than the USB2.0, but its
moot speedwise when using duplex mode as its 19 ppm speed when printing
straight through drops to about 2 ppm in duplex mode due to all the internal
paper shuffling. I suspect that short edge binding would be faster as in the
long edge mode I can hear the paper being shuffled around internally for many
seconds before I actually hear it make another trip past the drums.
But did you ever go to staples and look for a 3 ring binder for landscape
printouts? Or a paper punch that could be spaced for that? Donbesilly.
Both are made out that elusive stuff called "Pure Unobtainium". I'm sure
you've heard of the stuff. :)
Maybe in NYC or LA, but this is equ to West Podunk here in Weston WV.
Like any printer, it jams occasionally, and 99% of the time it instructs me to
open the back door and remove the jam, but have never found anything to
remove AND its sufficient to clear the jam if the door is opened far enough
to be detected, and closed again. But throw away that sheet of paper when it
does come out because it will print you a 2nd, good copy of those 2 pages
when it thinks its jammed or whatever. In about 4000 pages so far, I have
actually had to remove a crumpled up sheet of paper once. We wore out
several HP-4550's in the news dept at the tv station, years ago now, and they
jammed much more frequently. And didn't last the 100,000 pages they were
rated for either.
Anyway, I have apparently made it work, its time to quite poking at it with a
stick. If okular and evince can now use it all the time, I am a happy
camper, at least in this park.
A clue? update-manager just installed about 6 packages, and 2 were iceweasal
and cups-common, and it was cups-common that I filed the bug against. But I
had it working nominally 1 or 2 hours before the updates were done. As a
friend with Vermont roots says, Co-inky-dance. :)
Thank you all for putting up with me.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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