[cups.general] Two-sided printing for HP CP2025

Michael Sweet msweet at apple.com
Fri Aug 14 09:55:40 PDT 2009


This is almost certainly a problem with the HP driver - they have a  
post-processing filter and it may not support the full range of CUPS  
options like it is supposed to.

Try using "-o Duplex=DuplexNoTumble" instead of the sides option.

On Aug 14, 2009, at 9:40 AM, Farid Najm wrote:
> I have an HP Color LaserJet CP2025 with the Duplex unit installed  
> and no Tray 3. It has Letter sized paper in the (only) tray, Tray 2.  
> It is connected by USB to a Mac Pro (2x2.8GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon)  
> running Mac OS X (10.5.8). The printer was "set up" by simply  
> connecting it to the Mac, as opposed to setting it up via the CUPS  
> system (which I gather is another way of doing that). I can print  
> just fine from Mac applications, in either one-sided or two-sided  
> formats, no trouble at all.
>
> When I look up this printer using the CUPS system, I see that the  
> options are correctly set so that, under General, the page size is  
> LETTER, the paper source is Tray 2, and the 2-sided printing mode is  
> Long-Edge Binding.
>
> However, when I print from the Terminal window, I cannot print in  
> two-sided format, even if I say "lpr -o sides=two-sided-long-edge  
> <filename>". It will print, but comes out single-sided. Help!
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