[cups.general] need to print a large document 2 pages to a page on both sides in order wo duplex
Michael R Sweet
msweet at apple.com
Sat Mar 14 11:43:49 PDT 2009
Brandon wrote:
> I am trying to print out a document. I would like to conserve some paper and ink so I am printing 2 pages to a page and on both side of the paper. Unfortunately I do not have a duplex printer which I believe would resolve my problem. I would like pages 1-4 to fit on both sides of one page.
> I figure with the options documented in cups the only way I could accomplish this is to specify the range as follows.
>
> lp -o number-up=2 page-ranges=1,2,5,6,9,10 filename
>
> I would then have to reverse the pages and print
>
> lp -o number-up=2 page-ranges=3,4,7,8,11,12 filename
>
> Of course this would not a problem if my document was only 12 pages. Instead I am dealing with a couple archived documents well over 400 pages. Is there a easier way to do this?
Use the page-set option:
lp -o number-up=2 -o page-set=odd filename
lp -o number-up=2 -o page-set=even filename
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Michael R Sweet Senior Printing System Engineer
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