[cups] Printing 2 copies on a double sided printer

[Robert Heller]

At Mon, 21 Sep 2020 12:24:06 +0200 "The CUPS user discussion list." <cups at cups.org> wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a PDF with a single page. I want to print 2 copies.
> The printer prints by default double sided (long edge binding).
> 
> Result: 2 copies are printed on one paper (front & backside)
> Expected result: 2 copies are printed on 2 separate papers
> 
> Printer is a Brother MFC 9340 CDW, 'Force Rasterisation' on the Okular/KDE
> print menu creates indeed 2 copies!
> 
> I had addressed this in https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=425289 , KDE team
> says it is an upstream issue.
> 
> CUPS version is 2.3b6 - any idea what I could do?

Explicitly specifiy single sided printing.

This is actually a long term bug. I have a similar problem on my CentOS 6
system with a Brother laser printer (not a MFC) with CUPS 1.4.2. It *might* be
a problem with the Brother driver scripts (but that seems unlikely). My
printer can duplex (double sided printing), but by default I have it set for
single sided printing. When I want double sided printing, I explicitly specify
that. 

> 
> Thanks
> Axel
> 
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