[cups] Printing 2 copies on a double sided printer

Axel Braun axel.braun at gmx.de
Tue Sep 22 08:59:00 PDT 2020


Am Dienstag, 22. September 2020, 17:26:59 CEST schrieb Helge Blischke:
> > Am 22.09.2020 um 15:02 schrieb Axel Braun <axel.braun at gmx.de>:
> > 
> > Am Dienstag, 22. September 2020, 10:16:29 CEST schrieb Till Kamppeter:
> >> 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.....
> >> 
> >> It must be
> >> 
> >> lpadmin -p MFC9340CDW -o cupsManualCopies-default=true
> > 
> > Unfortunately this still give both copies on the same page.....
> 
> What does work in any case is to insert
> 
> *cupsManualCopies: True
> 
> in the printer’s PPD near the line beginning with *ColorDevice: xxx .

This hint was mentioned as well in the KDE bug, but did not change the 
behaviour either.

Thanks
Axel




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