[cups.general] Printer refusing to duplex

[Mac Mason]

And the plot thickens further; another machine, running the same version
of cups as the server, with the same PPD, but set to print through the
server via IPP, can also print duplex just fine.

I'm confused!

    --Mac

On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 01:55:38PM -0700, Mac Mason wrote:
> Also, I have another machine (running a slighly newer version of CUPS,
> but with the same PPD and a pretty-much-equivalent entry in
> printers.conf that can duplex just fine.
> 
> The only difference between the configs that I know of is that the
> non-working setup had a default margin set on text files, using (I
> think) lpoptions -o <something about margins that I don't remember>.
> 
> Oddly enough, that setting no longer appears (that I can find) in the
> lpoptions output, but the printer still prints the margins correctly.
> 
> 
>     --Mac
> 
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 10:01:34AM -0400, Michael Sweet wrote:
> > Helge Blischke wrote:
> > >...
> > >>What does "lpoptions -d printer -l" show?
> > >
> > >Hint: This command shows the defaults defined in the printer's PPD,
> > >as configured by lpadmin or the web interface. Look into the output
> > > ...
> > 
> > While this is usually important for constraints to be applied
> > properly, I'm really looking to see what the option and choice
> > names are for duplexing - if they aren't standard then the sides
> > option won't work...
> > 
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> Julian "Mac" Mason                            mac at cs.hmc.edu
> Computer Science '06                          (909)-607-3129
> Harvey Mudd College



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Julian "Mac" Mason                            mac at cs.hmc.edu
Computer Science '06                          (909)-607-3129
Harvey Mudd College
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