On Monday 23 February 2015 07:40:10 pm Brian wrote: > On Mon 23 Feb 2015 at 16:26:59 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Monday, February 23, 2015 10:20:38 AM Brian wrote: > > > > The duplex section of the PPD has > > > > > > > > *%=== BRDuplex ================================ > > > > *OpenUI *BRDuplex/Two-Sided: PickOne > > > > *OrderDependency: 25 AnySetup *BRDuplex > > > > *BRDefaultDuplex: None > > > > *BRDuplex DuplexTumble/Short-Edge Binding: " " > > > > *BRDuplex DuplexNoTumble/Long-Edge Binding: " " > > > > *BRDuplex None/Off: " " > > > > *CloseUI: *BRDuplex > > > > > > > > When all instances of "BR" are removed and CUPS restarted the options > > > > for Two-sided in Page Setup become available in evince and iceweasel. > > > > Only you can test whether this leads to the desired printing outcome, > > > > This however, had no effect on okular, duplex functions are ghosted and > > unavailable. Repeated it twice to make sure, restarting everything > > including okular. Or maybe I miss-understood and you are removeing the > > characters 'BR' only. By golly, that does unghost that option in okular. > > Yes, the two characters only. "BR" refers to BR-Script, Brother's > PostScript emulation. My hopes that this would work were not high, > partly because I cannot believe Brother doesn't know how to construct a > PPD and partly because I do not like messing with them. > > > But it doesn't make it work, so I now have 4 copies of an 88 page manual, > > printed single sided. Frustrated is not an adequate description here, > > but at least its printable. :( > > Why not print a page range? > > Anyway, time for Plan B. > > Your printer understands PCL, so we could ditch BR-Script and the > Brother drivers.
That bombed, printed an error on paper. ERROR: invalidaccess OFFENDING COMMAND: length STACK: So I put the printer in HP Laser mode and adjusted cups. Bupkiss, leds on printer, had to power cycle it to recover. Put it back in its native BRwhatever-3 mode, and looked at the options report, duplexnotumble was on as before. None of that was presented by the foomatic/pxlcolor(en) when that driver was selected. Tried to print 4 pages with lp, first good, three blank sheets. Loaded up okular and found that file is off enough that pages 2-3-4 turned yellow on screen and normal screen output from okluar only started back up at page 5 & 6. And okular's duplex modes were ghosted, not selectable. Tried to print 4 pages with okular, and got the front page and 3 more empty pages. > You want Administration at localhost:631; presumably your printer will > be detected with "Find New Printers" or "Add Printer". When you get to > the page for choosing a PPD select "Generic" in the Make: section. You > have a large choice of PCL PPDs; I'd suggest Foomatic/pxlcolor. Set > double-sided printing on the next page and check it is operative with > > lpoption -p <print_queue_name> -l This is from a ppd that did work. gene@coyote:~/Documents$ sudo /usr/bin/lpoptions -p Network_printer -l [sudo] password for gene: PageSize/Page Size: Custom.WIDTHxHEIGHT *Letter A4 11x17 A3 A5 B5 Env10 EnvC5 EnvDL EnvISOB5 EnvMonarch Executive Legal InputSlot/Media Source: *Default Upper Lower Multipurpose Manual Duplex/Double-Sided Printing: *DuplexNoTumble DuplexTumble None Resolution/Resolution: 150x150dpi 300x300dpi *600x600dpi 1200x1200dpi gene@coyote:~/Documents$ lp -d Network_printer -o page-ranges=1-6 29406.0.The_6309_Book.pdf WARNING: gnome-keyring:: couldn't connect to: /home/gene/.cache/keyring-M8lIRC/pkcs11: No such file or directory request id is Network_printer-27 (1 file(s)) And I got 3 sheets with the middle sheet containing what was effectively blank, fed straight out, skiiping the mechanicall processing of a sheet blank on both sides. That ppd is (and the printer is set for auto emulation IIRC), is Foomatic Postscript level 1. > > Now print a page range with > > lp -d <print_queue_name> -o page-ranges=1-4 filename > > Try with okular and iceweasel too. I am rather more confident that this > should work for you. okular still single sides, cannot select duplex so I put it back to the postscript level 1, and printed an 8 page mechanical drawing document in full color that looks to be even sharper than brothers own drivers, while claiming to only do 600x600. Line drawing colors and full photo colors are of course 2 different horses that should never share a pasture. So let me do a test page from cups and see if it is actually sharper. And that cups test page apparently crashes the printer, I get a flashing green data led, but the printer display is frozen in whatever state it was in, and I have to do a reset with the power button. Now, I'm lost in a forest of info. Can you see the next step? And I am doing all this while setting up the TDE desktop since no one has a clue why the fonts in the wheezy version of kmail's message window are fubared AND unchangeable except for their size. This, slightly older kmail has no such problems, but also does NOT have a dbus port, something I have been using once per incoming message since 2011. That however is another thread I'll start tomorrow. In the meantime I click on get mail when I run out of reading material. ;-) I could even have it check once a minute I suppose. ;-) Thanks Brian. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201502232252.05811.ghesk...@wdtv.com
