Duplex printing to an HP Laserjet P3005dn

[Eddie Lawrence]

Got it working. I installed the latest version of HPLIP and found a PPD 
that supports the LaserJet P3005dn. Thanks for your response.

Helge Blischke wrote:
> Eddie Lawrence wrote:
>> I am attempting to do duplex printing to an HP Laserjet P3005dn. I am 
>> using the following command to send the print jobs:
>>
>> lpr -#1 -P HP_LaserJet_P3005 -o sides=two-sided-long-edge -o 
>> media=Letter filename
>>
>> The printer seems to ignore the "-o sides=two-sided-long-edge" option. 
>> The printer is capable of duplexing and does print both sides from 
>> Microsoft Office applications. I just can't get it to print duplex 
>> from Linux. Could this be a problem with the CUPS printer definition?
> 
> 
> The sides attribute is checked against the duplex stuff in the
> printer's PPD and only honoured if the PPD says the printer
> supports duplexing. CUPS checks the keyword variants
>     Duplex
>     EFDuplex
>     EFDuplexing
>     KD03Duplex
>     JCLDuplex
> and looks for the values
>     DuplexNoTumble
>     LongEdge
>     Top
> or
>     DuplexTumble
>     ShortEdge
>     Bottom
> for the long-edge or short-edge variant, respectively.
> If the PPD contains other keywords and/or values than
> these, CUPS thinks duplexing is not supported.
> 
> You probablyx need to edit the PPD of your printer
> (and possibly file a STR for this issue).
> 
> Helge
> 
>