[cups.general] one-page-at-a-time

[Till Kamppeter]

For me it looks like that if the printer does not get any special 
instructions from the driver it defaults to manual feeding.

Does the printer have front panel menus? If so, check whether one can 
turn on and off manual feeding there.

Otherwise try also other drivers which make this printer work (HPIJS, 
Gutenprint, or the laserjet.ppd which comes with CUPS). Report here 
whether one or more of the other drivers make the printer doing 
automatic paper feeding. Also replacing ESP GhostScript by GPL 
GhostScript could help.

    Till

Dr. Scott S. Jones wrote:
> +++ adfas asd [25/04/07 09:13 -0700]:
>>>> If the former, maybe you are set to Manual Feed in
>>>> Paper Source. (or Automatic, and it's choosing
>>> Manual)
>>>
>>> For this argument to hold true, Windows print jobs
>>> sent to this same printer
>>> wouldn't work correctly either, would they?
>> Understand that when a printer is set to Manual feed,
>> it is done in the driver (software), so while Winduhs
>> may work fine (set properly in the driver), Linux may
>> not.  Manual feed is exactly what you describe.
>>
>> When you print something and you get the pop-up
>> dialog, somewhere may be a setting for Manual Feed or
>> Automatic, perhaps under the Driver tab.  Or maybe
>> it's Paper Source.  If nothing there, then the Manual
>> setting is buried deep in the /etc/cups/ppd/*.ppd
>> driver, and it is way beyond my knowledge.
>>
>> My problem is different, and judging from the
>> perplexity it has caused on this mailing list, must be
>> New Science®.  I can print a multiple-page document
>> fine, but never, never more than one -copy- at a time.
>>  This is inconvenient when I have 1,500 copies to do.
>>
>> No one can even suggest a different print server for me.
> 
> I don't see anywhere in the lpoptions -d printer_name output that tells my
> print to print in manual mode. It does sound like manual feed, but I am at a
> loss as to why it's defaulting to manual feed, but perhaps I have overlooked
> some setting. 
> 
> scott
> 
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