[cups] Printing 2 copies on a double sided printer

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 21 September 2020 07:04:54 Robert Heller wrote:

> 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.
>
Does anyone know what the collate checkbox in the print job tool does? If 
that is what serializes the 2 copies, it ought to be checked by default, 
but is not. Finding its AFU 50 pages into a ream of paper per copy 
manual, really is (cue Jackie Gleason's voice) a revolting development. 
I have one pdf, the docs for linuxcnc, that I'd like to do two copies 
of, one for each building I have machinery in, but its 904 pages ATM, 
and being updated a couple times a week. Somewhat heavily illustrated, 
its also about a $100 bill in ink to print each copy. So I read it on 
the machine with evince. But that does not imprint into this old mans 
memory like the hard copy does.

Another wart is trying to print the page you have on-screen. Docs with 
roman numeral'd preface pages screw that up totally.

> > Thanks
> > Axel
> >
> >
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Cheers, Gene Heskett
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