[cups] "Confidential" appears faintly across the page on every document I print.

Brian Potkin claremont102 at gmail.com
Sun Aug 13 12:19:13 PDT 2017


On Sun 13 Aug 2017 at 14:25:30 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:

> On Sunday 13 August 2017 13:07:56 Helge Blischke wrote:
> 
> > > Am 13.08.2017 um 18:50 schrieb Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net>:
> > >
> > > On Sunday 13 August 2017 09:17:17 Helge Blischke wrote:
> > >> cupstestppd -vv /etc/cups/ppd/
> > >
> > > Excellent, Helge, thank you.
> > >
> > > The very lengthy list did contain some warnings, seems Brother and
> > > Adobe don't quite gee-haw on page format names.
> > >
> > > The reason I was curious is that I printed some data to update a
> > > manual I have, designed I think for the letter sized two pages in
> > > landscape mode, to be folded in half to readers digest size, so the
> > > 4 pages could be read as a readers digest sized assembly, and
> > > inserted in the manuals 2 ring binder to update the manual.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately, while the printed pages are quite high quality,
> > > turning the page to read page 3, and it and page 4 on the back side
> > > of that sheet of paper is upside down! Less than ideal, and if I
> > > could get it to rotate the backside image 180 degrees, I'd be quite
> > > grateful.  However the system printer dialog does not seem to offer
> > > such.  Debian Wheezy, uptodate a/o yesterday.
> > >
> > > Cheers, Gene Heskett
> > > --
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> > > _______________________________________________
> >
> > If the pdftopdf filter (from the openprinting cups-filters package) is
> > in your filter chain, there should be an option "booklet“ which should
> > just do what you want. I can’t tell more about it as I (on a Mac) I
> > don’t use this package.
> >
> > Helge
> 
> Thats installed, but the Brother supplied ppd's do not show it in that 
> manner.

It's impossible for pdftopdf to be installed. A Debian wheezy never had
it.

Please show what you get with

dpkg -l cups-filters

-- 
Brian.


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