On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 11:07:35 -0500 Gene Heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com> wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 25 February 2015 10:41:30 Petter Adsen wrote: > > On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 10:00:01 -0500 > > > > Gene Heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com> wrote: > > > On Wednesday 25 February 2015 05:11:51 Curt wrote: > > > > On 2015-02-25, Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > CUPS has not provided information about them them because it > > > > > gets its information from the Duplex option in the PPD file. > > > > > The brother PPD does not provide such an option. There is no > > > > > bug. > > > > > > > > Then I can't understand why Gene said he could print a test > > > > page in duplex using the brother PPD after setting the duplex > > > > option as a default in the web interface. > > > > > > I don't recall saying that. I can duplex print if I use one of the > > > foomatic postscript drivers, but of the ones I have tried, > > > everyone works, and then crashes the printer so it has to be > > > powerdown reset to retre it for the next job. > > > > > > 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 > > > > I just tested printing from a Jessie VM here on my Epson printer. > > When set to duplex, it pulls the page back in, and then spits it > > out again, although it hasn't printed anything on the back. When I > > tried from an OpenSUSE VM, it actually printed on both sides. > > > > Attached, if the server lets it through. > > It did, and it was opened by kghostview for display when I > dbl-clicked on it. > > kghostview's printer dialog can see AND adjust the options. I left > the default long edge binding duplex setting in place and printed it, > AND IT WORKED! Yay! Congratulations! :-) I guess that counts as progress :) > But that printer dialog is obviously not one of the two I have been > dealing with here. It is TDEPrint , and appears to work exactly as > expected. Odd that the others don't. > So we have now learned that it can work on wheezy, if the right > printer dialog issues the command to (cups version) lp. > > Do we still have the group in denial? > > Now, if I can determine from the help screens of the other print > dialogs and determine what their names are, I can begin to file > meaningful bugs. I opened the file here, in evince and launced the print dialog. From what I can see the dialog is not a separate process, so maybe you could try filing a bug against whatever application you are trying to print from that fails, with a note that it works from kghostview/TDE? > > Petter > Thank you Petter, it was and is, a valuable tool for testing. I > appreciate it. > Cheers, Gene Heskett You are very welcome - glad it helped! :) Petter -- "I'm ionized" "Are you sure?" "I'm positive."
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