On Mon 23 Feb 2015 at 16:26:59 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday, February 23, 2015 10:20:38 AM Brian wrote: > > > > The duplex section of the PPD has > > > > > > *%=== BRDuplex ================================ > > > *OpenUI *BRDuplex/Two-Sided: PickOne > > > *OrderDependency: 25 AnySetup *BRDuplex > > > *BRDefaultDuplex: None > > > *BRDuplex DuplexTumble/Short-Edge Binding: " " > > > *BRDuplex DuplexNoTumble/Long-Edge Binding: " " > > > *BRDuplex None/Off: " " > > > *CloseUI: *BRDuplex > > > > > > When all instances of "BR" are removed and CUPS restarted the options > > > for Two-sided in Page Setup become available in evince and iceweasel. > > > Only you can test whether this leads to the desired printing outcome, > > This however, had no effect on okular, duplex functions are ghosted and > unavailable. Repeated it twice to make sure, restarting everything > including okular. Or maybe I miss-understood and you are removeing the > characters 'BR' only. By golly, that does unghost that option in okular.
Yes, the two characters only. "BR" refers to BR-Script, Brother's PostScript emulation. My hopes that this would work were not high, partly because I cannot believe Brother doesn't know how to construct a PPD and partly because I do not like messing with them. > But it doesn't make it work, so I now have 4 copies of an 88 page manual, > printed single sided. Frustrated is not an adequate description here, but > at least its printable. :( Why not print a page range? Anyway, time for Plan B. Your printer understands PCL, so we could ditch BR-Script and the Brother drivers. You want Administration at localhost:631; presumably your printer will be detected with "Find New Printers" or "Add Printer". When you get to the page for choosing a PPD select "Generic" in the Make: section. You have a large choice of PCL PPDs; I'd suggest Foomatic/pxlcolor. Set double-sided printing on the next page and check it is operative with lpoption -p <print_queue_name> -l Now print a page range with lp -d <print_queue_name> -o page-ranges=1-4 Try with okular and iceweasel too. I am rather more confident that this should work for you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/24022015001121.f3335226a...@desktop.copernicus.demon.co.uk
