Simplex banner page on a duplex printer

Christoph Litauer litauer at uni-koblenz.de
Thu Sep 23 06:42:27 PDT 2004


Env:
Suse Linux 9.1
Cups 1.1.20

Hi,

just upgraded my linux and cups installation on my printserver. Some of 
my printers have duplex as a default configuration. Nervertheless I 
configured a banner page explicitly printing itself simplex by inserting

statusdict begin /setduplexmode where { pop false setduplexmode } if end

(the banner document is attached)

This worked fine with cups-1.1.18.
Using cups-1.1.20 prints an empty page after each banner page. This is 
because some filter (which one?) converts my banner page and inserts 
some code at the end:

[... PS code ... ]
showpage

%%Page: 2 2
showpage

%%Trailer
%%Pages: 2
%%EOF

(the converted banner page is attached, too)


Since the effect only happens on duplex configured printers I suppose 
the filter inserts a second page because my banner just uses one page.

I have 2 questions:
1.) Which filter converts my banner page?
2.) How can I modify my banner page so that it is printed simplex?


-- 
Regards
Christoph
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