Note that if you request two copies of a one-page document the correct
behavior is getting two one-sided documents. It is wrong to get two
pages of different copies on the same sheet, as this way you cannot
separate the copies. For example if you print a 3-page document you
should get page 1 and page 2 on the first sheet, page 3 with blank back
on the second sheet, giving you the first copy, and then page 1 and page
2 again on the third sheet and page 3 again on the forth sheet with
blank back, giving you the second copy. It is wrong in this case to get
page 1 and page 2 of the first copy on the first sheet, then page 3 of
the first copy and page 1 of the second copy on the second sheet and
page 2 and page 3 of the second copy on the third sheet.
So the behavior you are reporting is correct and you are returning to a
buggy behavior which you prefer for some reason.
The fact that the printer turns over the paper to "print" the blank back
sides is a shortcoming of the printer's hardware or firmware, not taking
into account thjat the back sides are blank.
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Status: New => Invalid
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Title:
Blank pages inserted in duplex print job
Status in “cups-filters” package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Bug description:
I have a Brother HL2270DW printer. I've been using it in Ubuntu since
I got it a few years ago. It's always worked fine.
Lately, however, it has been inserting a blank page between pages in
duplex jobs. For example, if I print two copies of a one-page
document with duplex on, it used to print on both sides of one sheet
of paper; but now it prints on one side, takes the paper back in as if
to print on the back side, spits it out with the back side blank, and
then does the same routine on a second sheet of paper. I think it
started happening when I upgraded from Quantal to Raring. I haven't
been printing a lot lately, so I haven't noticed it until now.
I found Bug #1111292, which seems like the same bug, however 1) I have
no "scale to fit" option checked or even available in any of the print
dialogs I've been using, both in CUPS itself, in LibreOffice, and in
Okular; and 2) I am having this problem with Raring, even though that
bug indicates it should be fixed in Raring.
On a hunch, I downgraded the cups-filters package (not the cups
package) to the version from Quantal, then restarted CUPS, and the
problem went away. I also had to install libqpdf8 from Quantal to
fulfill the dependencies of that version of cups-filters.
cups-filters:
Installed: 1.0.24-2
Candidate: 1.0.34-0ubuntu1.1
Version table:
1.0.34-0ubuntu1.1 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring-updates/main i386
Packages
1.0.34-0ubuntu1 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring/main i386 Packages
*** 1.0.24-2 0
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
libqpdf8:
Installed: 3.0.2-1
Candidate: 3.0.2-1
Version table:
*** 3.0.2-1 0
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
According to Bug #1111292, the problem should have been fixed in cups-
filters 1.0.30. I'm guessing that either a) somehow the fix didn't
make it into 1.0.30 after all; or b) Ubuntu's package somehow missed
the fix, despite the newer upstream version; or c) it's regressed
since 1.0.30; or d) this is a similar but unrelated bug.
Thankfully I've been able to work around it by using the old version
of the package, but who knows if that will work in Saucy. Please let
me know how I can help fix this bug.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: cups-filters 1.0.24-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-27.40-generic 3.8.13.4
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-27-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.3
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Sep 5 23:19:59 2013
Lpstat:
device for DormNet: socket://10.1.23.45:9100
device for HL2270DW: lpd://192.168.0.102/binary_p1
device for laserdad: smb://OFFICE/DAD/LaserDad
device for ML-1210: usb://Samsung/ML-1210
MachineType: Dell Inc. XPS M1330
MarkForUpload: True
Papersize: letter
PpdFiles:
HL2270DW: Brother HL2270DW for CUPS
ML-1210: Samsung ML-1210 Foomatic/gdi (recommended)
DormNet: Lexmark Optra E321 Foomatic/hpijs-pcl5e (recommended)
laserdad: Brother HL-5240 BR-Script3
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.8.0-27-generic
root=/dev/mapper/vg-root ro
SourcePackage: cups-filters
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-06-13 (84 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 12/26/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A15
dmi.board.name: 0PU073
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias:
dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA15:bd12/26/2008:svnDellInc.:pnXPSM1330:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0PU073:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr:
dmi.product.name: XPS M1330
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
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