Hi.
I have LO 4.1 dev build on a macbook pro 10.6.8 (I think) and can print
duplex to a Brother 2040D and an HP C410.
Steve
On 2013-07-19 05:37, Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :)
Upgrading LO to 4.0.x sounds like a good plan, as does
File - "Export to Pdf"
and then print the Pdf through whatever you view Pdfs with.
Errr i only had a go on 1 Macbook once and i wasn't able to fully explore it. it
was quite a big deal for me as it's been about a decade since i last used a Mac. I
have seen quite a few people on these mailing lists deal with Mac issues and
documentation is pretty good at providing a conversion table to deal with a couple
of issues. So i listen to other people and copy&paste parts of their previous
answers if it seems appropriate. These lists are great for learning tons of useful
stuff or just increasing understanding general understanding.
As Tim said Mac is kinda a brother or sister of Gnu&Linux so advice based on
one might help with the other but there are some odd differences between the
platforms.
The main problem seemed to be that because the drivers were built-in to OS X
10.5 it's very difficult to get hold of a package that is just the driver or
installer. However, i think the op has found 3 drivers that are almost right
but just not quite there. Perhaps upgrading LO might help them.
Regards from
Tom :)
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From: Kracked_P_P---webmaster <webmas...@krackedpress.com>
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Wednesday, 17 July 2013, 5:03
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Printing with HP 960C Deskjet
For now, as a big work around. . .
Do you have "luck" printing a PDF file to the HP 960? If so, then just
export to PDF and print that file. That will work till we get the
direct printing from LO issue fixed. For the longest time, that was
what I did to print a duplex document on the Epson printer.
Do you have the ability to use the OSX 10.5 driver? Or the more generic
10.1.5 to 10.4.x driver?
HP has those drivers on their web site for download.
I am not a Mac person, but since it is "sort of" a Linux-like OS
[do not tell me how it is not a Linux OS, since I am using a generic
comparison]
then there must be a way to install this older driver and use it.
I know that for Linux and Windows, drivers for earlier version of the OS
can work, most times, when there is no newer version for the newer OS.
I have used 10.04 and 11.x drivers for my Ubuntu system when there has
not been one made for my 12.04 version of the OS. Actually I have done
that with several packages. So I am hoping that the 10.5.x driver would
work on a 10.7 OSX, since there is none listed for 10.6 or 10.7.
Also, LO 3.4.1 may not be the best version for your needs. I had a lot
of trouble with dialogs and duplex printing till the 3.6.x line. I use
4.0.4.2 on a Linux system at this time. So it is possible for you to
download and install the 3.6.6 version or the 4.0.4 version for OSX and
see if some of your dialog issues are fixed.
To get duplex working on all my duplexing printers [HP laser, Canon
inkjet, and Epson inkjet] I had to check the "use LO dialog" option for
the print dialogs. That was listed as an option for Linux but did not
show up for the Windows version. So I would expect that the OSX version
might have some different dialog options. Before I found that "Linux
only" option, no one could figure out how to get my Epson printer to
duplex when my HP laser would. Now I have a Canon inkjet and the check
box option works with that duplexing printer as well.
I know that Tom is a Linux person, but he has access to Mac systems, so
he may know some OSX specific option, but I have used 3 duplexing
printer and I know what works for me.
On 07/16/2013 07:26 PM, Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :)
2 approaches to fix this, i've not thought about which should be number 1
1. To use the LO dialogues ... When the printer dialogue-box pops-up note there are 4 tabs at the top. On
the 1st tab you should see a list of all the printers installed. Select the Hp 960 but instead of printing
click on the "Properties" button. It's just under the list. The "Properties" pop-up
also has a couple of tabs. The 1st should be "Paper". Duplex is about the 4h drop-down.
Long-edge for Portrait but Short-edge for landscape. My boss can never figure out that short-edge refers to
the shortest edge of the paper, or perhaps he is just being kind.
2. To change to normal dialogues ...
LibreOffice - Preferences - General - "Print dialogues" - UNtick the tick-box that says
"Use LO dialogues".
Errr, are you sure that duplex is installed? When you install the driver it
should ask you if you want duplex to be included. It might do it automatically.
Regards from
Tom :)
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From: Cliff Scott <c...@intergate.com>
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Tuesday, 16 July 2013, 22:29
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Printing with HP 960C Deskjet
Fellow LibreOffice users -
I am running LO on a Mac, OSx 10.7.5 and the printer is a HP 960C Deskjet.
There are no native OSx drivers for the 960C so I've loaded drivers from
Guten Print, Hpijs and also an HP 9800. All three work fine with every OSx
app including OpenOffice 3.4.1. In LO the print dialog does not use the
normal OSx dialog that every other app uses, but has its own. That dialog
does not allow me to select Dual sided printing or Print Quality other than
Draft, among other missing, but not so important settings. Is there any way
around this? Why does LO do its own thing and not use the normal dialogs? I
have to have OpenOffice installed just to print properly. Very wasteful of
time and resources.
LO has fixed a number of things that are not fixed in OO so I'd much rather
use LO all the way, except for this one issue.
Thanks for any help.
Cliff
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