Bug#781253: cups: no duplex printing (two-sided) with lp or lpr

2015-05-12 Thread Brian Potkin
On Tue 12 May 2015 at 02:53:44 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2015-05-11 23:12:35 +0100, Brian Potkin wrote: Today, while examining the way Ghostscript and pdftops operate I came (completely unexpectedly) across this: http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=694852 Your

Bug#781253: cups: no duplex printing (two-sided) with lp or lpr

2015-05-12 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Control: tags -1 upstream fixed-upstream fixed-in-experimental Control: found -1 9.05~dfsg-6.3+deb7u1 Control: found -1 9.06~dfsg-2 Control: fixed -1 9.15~rc1~dfsg-1 On 2015-05-12 11:10:36 +0100, Brian Potkin wrote: You appear to be correct in thinking the bug has not been attended to in

Bug#781253: cups: no duplex printing (two-sided) with lp or lpr

2015-05-11 Thread Brian Potkin
reassign 781253 ghostscript thanks On Thu 30 Apr 2015 at 16:15:45 +0100, Brian Potkin wrote: On Thu 30 Apr 2015 at 12:54:09 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2015-04-30 10:32:33 +0100, Brian Potkin wrote: Having to switch renderer to get a satisfactory printout is usually an

Bug#781253: cups: no duplex printing (two-sided) with lp or lpr

2015-05-11 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2015-05-11 23:12:35 +0100, Brian Potkin wrote: Today, while examining the way Ghostscript and pdftops operate I came (completely unexpectedly) across this: http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=694852 Your problem appears to be exactly described in the bug title. Indeed. My

Bug#781253: cups: no duplex printing (two-sided) with lp or lpr

2015-04-30 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2015-04-30 10:32:33 +0100, Brian Potkin wrote: Having to switch renderer to get a satisfactory printout is usually an indication of a problem with the printer not dealing with valid PostScript rather than the filtering system. Or could this be a bug with the default renderer (Ghostscript?)?

Bug#781253: cups: no duplex printing (two-sided) with lp or lpr

2015-04-30 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2015-04-30 10:32:33 +0100, Brian Potkin wrote: Having to switch renderer to get a satisfactory printout is usually an indication of a problem with the printer not dealing with valid PostScript rather than the filtering system. Is there a way to send unfiltered PostScript to the printer in

Bug#781253: cups: no duplex printing (two-sided) with lp or lpr

2015-04-30 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2015-04-30 10:32:33 +0100, Brian Potkin wrote: On Wed 29 Apr 2015 at 17:27:38 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2015-04-29 15:27:17 +0100, Brian Potkin wrote: One way I got my printer to work with a foomatic driver was to set up a queue with -o pdftops-renderer-default=pdftops. That

Bug#781253: cups: no duplex printing (two-sided) with lp or lpr

2015-04-30 Thread Brian Potkin
On Wed 29 Apr 2015 at 17:27:38 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2015-04-29 15:27:17 +0100, Brian Potkin wrote: One way I got my printer to work with a foomatic driver was to set up a queue with -o pdftops-renderer-default=pdftops. That option isn't open to you but how does lp -d

Bug#781253: cups: no duplex printing (two-sided) with lp or lpr

2015-04-30 Thread Brian Potkin
On Thu 30 Apr 2015 at 12:54:09 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2015-04-30 10:32:33 +0100, Brian Potkin wrote: Having to switch renderer to get a satisfactory printout is usually an indication of a problem with the printer not dealing with valid PostScript rather than the filtering system.

Bug#781253: cups: no duplex printing (two-sided) with lp or lpr

2015-04-29 Thread Brian Potkin
tags 781253 - unreproducible thanks On Mon 27 Apr 2015 at 16:36:18 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: Control: reopen -1 Control: retitle -1 no duplex printing (two-sided) with lp or lpr of a letter PDF file on A4 paper Sorry for the late reply. In the mean time, I talked to the sysadmin

Bug#781253: cups: no duplex printing (two-sided) with lp or lpr

2015-04-29 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Control: tags 781253 - unreproducible On 2015-04-29 09:23:05 +0100, Brian Potkin wrote: tags 781253 - unreproducible thanks wasn't taken into account. On Mon 27 Apr 2015 at 16:36:18 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: Sorry for the late reply. In the mean time, I talked to the sysadmin and we

Bug#781253: cups: no duplex printing (two-sided) with lp or lpr

2015-04-29 Thread Brian Potkin
reassign 781253 cups-filters-core-drivers thanks On Wed 29 Apr 2015 at 11:31:52 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2015-04-29 09:23:05 +0100, Brian Potkin wrote: How does babel-bib.pdf print when Page Scaling is set to none in Evince? It sill prints in duplex. Ditto if I unselect Auto

Bug#781253: cups: no duplex printing (two-sided) with lp or lpr

2015-04-29 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2015-04-29 15:27:17 +0100, Brian Potkin wrote: One way I got my printer to work with a foomatic driver was to set up a queue with -o pdftops-renderer-default=pdftops. That option isn't open to you but how does lp -d queue -o pdftops-renderer=pdftops babel-bib.pdf turn out? It

Bug#781253: cups: no duplex printing (two-sided) with lp or lpr

2015-04-27 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Control: reopen -1 Control: retitle -1 no duplex printing (two-sided) with lp or lpr of a letter PDF file on A4 paper Sorry for the late reply. In the mean time, I talked to the sysadmin and we did more tests. I'm reopening the bug since I have more information that could be useful to get a

Bug#781253: cups: no duplex printing (two-sided) with lp or lpr

2015-03-30 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2015-03-27 19:12:13 +, Brian Potkin wrote: On Fri 27 Mar 2015 at 11:27:41 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2015-03-27 09:46:55 +, Brian Potkin wrote: Evince is very likely using 'Duplex=DuplexNoTumble' when the file gets to the server. How does 'lp -o Duplex=DuplexNoTumble

Bug#781253: cups: no duplex printing (two-sided) with lp or lpr

2015-03-30 Thread Brian Potkin
On Mon 30 Mar 2015 at 11:30:26 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2015-03-27 19:12:13 +, Brian Potkin wrote: With a print queue set up for the Ricoh MP C3003 PS on a Wheezy machine (cups 1.5.3-5+deb7u4) and printing from Evince on an up-to-date Jessie machine using client.conf we get

Bug#781253: cups: no duplex printing (two-sided) with lp or lpr

2015-03-27 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2015-03-27 09:46:55 +, Brian Potkin wrote: Evince is very likely using 'Duplex=DuplexNoTumble' when the file gets to the server. How does 'lp -o Duplex=DuplexNoTumble file.pdf' fare? Same problem. Do we assume you do not have access to the server logs? I don't, but I can ask the

Bug#781253: cups: no duplex printing (two-sided) with lp or lpr

2015-03-27 Thread Brian Potkin
On Thu 26 Mar 2015 at 19:21:01 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2015-03-26 16:41:53 +, Brian Potkin wrote:

Bug#781253: cups: no duplex printing (two-sided) with lp or lpr

2015-03-27 Thread Brian Potkin
On Fri 27 Mar 2015 at 11:27:41 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2015-03-27 09:46:55 +, Brian Potkin wrote: Evince is very likely using 'Duplex=DuplexNoTumble' when the file gets to the server. How does 'lp -o Duplex=DuplexNoTumble file.pdf' fare? Same problem. With a print queue set

Bug#781253: cups: no duplex printing (two-sided) with lp or lpr

2015-03-26 Thread Brian Potkin
On Thu 26 Mar 2015 at 15:12:25 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2015-03-26 15:00:02 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: When I print a PDF file with just lpr file.pdf or explicitly two-sided with lpr -o sides=two-sided-long-edge file.pdf, the output is done only on one side of the paper. There's

Bug#781253: cups: no duplex printing (two-sided) with lp or lpr

2015-03-26 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2015-03-26 16:41:53 +, Brian Potkin wrote: Please post what you get for 'lpoptions -l'. OptionTray/Option Tray: NotInstalled 1Cassette LCT *2Cassette LargeCapacityTray/Large Capacity Tray: *NotInstalled Installed InnerTray2/Internal Tray 2: *NotInstalled Installed ShiftTray/Internal Shift

Bug#781253: cups: no duplex printing (two-sided) with lp or lpr

2015-03-26 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Control: reassign -1 cups-client 1.7.5-11 Control: retitle -1 cups: no duplex printing (two-sided) with lp or lpr Control: severity -1 important On 2015-03-26 15:00:02 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: When I print a PDF file with just lpr file.pdf or explicitly two-sided with lpr -o