[cups.bugs] [LOW] STR #3227: Brother HL-5150D duplex option notworking properly

[Till Kamppeter]

Michael R Sweet wrote:
> Yes, quite sure, since otherwise duplex printing would be broken for all 
> printers and that has not been reported (and I'm quite sure I'd catch 
> that since I use duplex all the time...)
>

For me Duplex works very well on my HP printers on all Ubuntu versions, 
using HP's PostScript PPDs for PostScript printers and HPLIP for 
non-PostScript printers.

> The Brother printer in question supports PostScript (BRScript3), so 
> there is no reason you can't use the vendor's Windows or Mac OS X PPD to 
> print instead of a Foomatic PPD which adds an unnecessary layer that in 
> my experience causes more problems than it solves...
> 

For many Brother printers Ubuntu ships manufacturer-supplied PPDs which 
will get auto-selected if a matching printer is set up, but Brother did 
not update this PPD collection for longer time. So on newer printers a 
fallnback to a generic PostScript PPD due to the fact that the printer 
is marked as PostScript printer in the device ID can happen. A Generic 
PostScript PPD is not guaranteed to work on all PostScript printers. You 
can find newer Brother PPDs on http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/

> Also, recent versions of Ubuntu have adopted alternate print filters 
> which might be (accidentally) clearing the duplex option, leading to the 
> issues you are seeing.

 From which applications or client systems are you printing?

    Till