[cups] Printing 2 copies on a double sided printer

Gene Heskett gheskett at shentel.net
Tue Sep 22 07:12:24 PDT 2020


On Tuesday 22 September 2020 04:16:29 Till Kamppeter wrote:

> On 22/09/2020 10:10, Axel Braun wrote:
> >> lpadmin -p <printer> -o cupsManualCopies=true
> >> or
> >> lpadmin -p <printer> -o default-cupsManualCopies=true
> >>
> >> where <printer> is the queue name of the printer in question.
> >
> > I tried
> >
> > lpadmin -p MFC9340CDW -o default-cupsManualCopies=true
> >
> > before printing from Okular, but that did not fix it.....
> >
> > Axel
>
> It must be
>
> lpadmin -p MFC9340CDW -o cupsManualCopies-default=true
>
>     Till

That didn't fix it here either, Till.

I just asked it to print 2 copies of this email, and got one page, 
identical on both sides. I do have to preface that cmd with a sudo 
though.

Thanks.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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