Dear PLUG, I have an HL-2270DW monochrome laser printer on Ubuntu 10.04 hooked up to a usb port. The following indicate the drivers on my system, I think...
oem@freekbox:~$ dpkg -l | grep Brother ii cupswrapperhl2270dw 2.0.4-2 Brother HL2270DW CUPS wrapper driver ii hl2270dwlpr 2.1.0-1 Brother HL-2270DW LPR driver ii openprinting-ppds-postscript-brother 20101122-1lsb3.2 Manufacturer-supplied PPD files for Brother' The problem I have is that sometimes I don't want my printer to print duplex. I sometimes want it to print on just one side of the paper. Sometimes I use paper that is already printed on one side. If the document that I'm printing has 10 pages to print, then I want the printer to print the 10 pages on one side, not duplex. I reuse paper that has a blank page on one side sometimes. I would not like to print 10 separate pages, one at a time, on one side of the page, each time. When I go in a program to print a document I go to File, then Print..., then a dialog box comes up entitled "Print". In this dialog box is a tab entitled, "Page Setup". When I go to the "Page Setup" tab, there is a label called, "Two-sided:". This label is next to a drop down box, which has three options, "One Sided", "Long Edge (Standard)", and "Short Edge (Flip)" When I pick "One Sided", my printer still prints duplex. Does "One Sided", not mean what I think it means? When I go to a dialog box entitled, "Printer Properties - 'HL2270DW' on localhost", I can go to "Printer Options". Then I see a label that says, "Duplex:" Next to this label is a drop down box whose choices are, "None", "DuplexNoTumble", and "DuplexTumble". When I choose, "None", I still get duplex printing on my printer, when all I want is single sided printing. Does, "None", not mean what I think it means? Do I have incorrect drivers on my system? Do I need to configure something else. I have a feeling that the ability to turn off duplex printing is in the Windows driver, but not in the linux driver. Can I somehow use wine, and the windows driver, just to be able to turn off the duplex printing when I want, and have single sided printing. How do I go about doing that? Would it somehow interfere with my linux driver? Do I use both a windows wine, and linux driver at the same time? I'll come to the PLUG clinic for help, but maybe someone will already know what I need to do. At least someone will have a heads up if they read this email before, presumably, helping me at the clinic. Sincerely perplexed over duplex, Victor Soich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug