Manual Duplex Printing in General

[David]

Helge Blischke wrote:
> If you mean first printing the odd pages, then reloading the media and
> printing the even
> pages, this can be done with CUPS: use the options "page-set=odd" and
> "page-set=even",
> respecively.

Hmm, interesting - that explains a few things then! This is easy to do from most applications (odd/even), but it's a bit of a faff.

I'm assuming that with an automatic duplexer in your printer and proper driver support then automatic duplexing is fine. I'm just wondering how to go about doing this remotely over a network with mutiple CUPS servers running on different machines. My CUPS server just flat out told me that the remote CUPS server didn't do duplexing. Is a remote CUPS server able to report what a printer supports to a local CUPS server?

Anyway, I suppose I'll find out a bit more.

Bit surprised by manual duplexing though. Has there been any thought to supporting it directly in CUPS? Is it realistically possible?

Thanks,

David