[cups.general] Correcting numerical/string option to Duplex=None?

[Till Kamppeter]

This is a problem of foomatic-rip. Can you please report this as a bug on

http://bugs.linux-foundation.org/

for the product "OpenPrinting" and the component "foomatic-filters"?

Thank you very much.

    Till

Kevin Shanahan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm having some problems getting duplexing to work on a HP Colour
> LaserJet 3600. We are using the CUPS driver for windows 6.0 with CUPS
> 1.3.8 on our Samba server, with the PPD from hpijs 2.8.6.20.
> 
>>From what I can see the PS job generated by the windows driver has the
> duplex option set correctly, but CUPS is removing it when processing the
> job - from /var/log/cups/error_log:
> 
> D [15/Sep/2008:11:55:23 +0930] [Job 168] Found: %%BeginSetup
> D [15/Sep/2008:11:55:23 +0930] [Job 168] Found: %%BeginFeature: *PageSize A4^M
> D [15/Sep/2008:11:55:23 +0930] [Job 168] Option: PageSize=A4 --> Setting option
> D [15/Sep/2008:11:55:23 +0930] [Job 168] Found: %% FoomaticRIPOptionSetting: PageSize=A4^M
> D [15/Sep/2008:11:55:23 +0930] [Job 168] Option: PageSize=A4 --> Setting option
> D [15/Sep/2008:11:55:23 +0930] [Job 168] Found: %%BeginFeature: *PrintoutMode Normal^M
> D [15/Sep/2008:11:55:23 +0930] [Job 168] Option: PrintoutMode=Normal --> Setting option
> D [15/Sep/2008:11:55:23 +0930] [Job 168] Found: %% FoomaticRIPOptionSetting: PrintoutMode=Normal^M
> D [15/Sep/2008:11:55:23 +0930] [Job 168] Option: PrintoutMode=Normal --> Setting option
> D [15/Sep/2008:11:55:23 +0930] [Job 168] Found: %%BeginFeature: *Quality FromPrintoutMode^M
> D [15/Sep/2008:11:55:23 +0930] [Job 168] Option: Quality=FromPrintoutMode --> Setting option
> D [15/Sep/2008:11:55:23 +0930] [Job 168] Found: %% FoomaticRIPOptionSetting: Quality=@PrintoutMode^M
> D [15/Sep/2008:11:55:23 +0930] [Job 168] Option: Quality=FromPrintoutMode --> Setting option
> D [15/Sep/2008:11:55:23 +0930] [Job 168] Found: %%BeginFeature: *Duplex DuplexNoTumble^M
> D [15/Sep/2008:11:55:23 +0930] [Job 168] Option: Duplex=DuplexNoTumble --> Correcting numerical/string option to Duplex=None (Command line argument)
> 
> However, I don't really understand why it would do that. The printer's
> PPD looks to have the right options available.
> 
> Thanks,
> Kevin.
> 
>