[cups.general] 4 pages per side on a Samsung printer

Helge Blischke h.blischke at acm.org
Mon Jun 14 07:52:45 PDT 2010


Pierre Frenkiel wrote:

> On Mon, 14 Jun 2010, Helge Blischke wrote:
> 
>>> From the Samsung web site I learned that the printer provides built-in
>>> n-up
>> printing. So check your printer's preferences. If in doubt, post the PPD
>> you use.
> 
>    I forgot to add that this problem with acroread, okular and xfig 
>    occurs only on my desktop, and not on my laptop, although they have the
>    same config:
>      - same printers.conf
>      - same ppd
>      - same foomatic packages
> 
>    If the printer was configured with 4-up, evince would not print 1-up,
>    and the printouts from my laptop would be also 4-up.
>    And also, if I use the -l lpr option (no filter), the output
>    is 1-up... So, I think it's clearly a filter problem.
> 

Perhaps you have diffferent lpoptions or PPD defaults on your different 
machines?

Helge





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