Cannot select double-sided or single-sided print

Helge Blischke h.blischke at acm.org
Wed Oct 13 04:59:44 PDT 2010


Evg wrote:

> Hello.
> 
> I install printer using web-interface (LJ 4350) on Ubuntu machine, then I
> install samba drivers.
> 
> Then share this printer and use it from Windows.
> 
> There is a setting in Windows driver which allows me to select whether
> "Duplex" should be used. CUPS does ignore the setting of Windows driver
> and prints as set in CUPS own settings for the printer.
> 
> The only way to choose duplex (or not duplex) from Windows machines is to
> use Raw queque. But then I cannot do print accounting (page_log).
> 
> I used two Windows drivers: provided with CUPS and original from HP - LJ
> Printing System PS version. Both of them allow to choose to do duplex or
> not. But CUPS ignores it.
> 
> Can this bug be fixed somehow? Thanks.

What version of CUPS?

I remember there was a version that inserted the PDF defaults (from the cups 
server side) at the end of the setup section of the PostScript job instead 
of the beginning.

Helge





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