On Wednesday 25 February 2015 03:30:06 Curt wrote:
> On 2015-02-24, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com> wrote:
> > Went around the bush again, turned it off in cups default, called up
> > iceweasals print menu and again was denied duplex functions.
>
> There's also, I believe, a kde specific printer settings tool (of which
> I don't know the name) whose defaults might be conflicting with or
> overriding your duplex desires, although why the option would be
> greyed-out in various pdf viewers escapes me.
Because THIS Brother supplied ppd has the characters BR prepended to every
variable name in the duplex control stanza? You can edit the BR's out of the
ppd, restart cups, and these option ARE then visible and settable in the
print options dialogs. But then of course without the BR in the option
string, the printer ignores it as just so much noise? Somehow I think this
is the real problem.
One other attempt: I just set the emulation to be fixed at HP LaserJet, but
cups has about 15,000 such HP drivers. I could finish wearing out the
printer by the time I found the right version. :( :(
From a printout of its settings, non-duplexed because that was turned off but
I just turned it back on, the HP LaserJet section looks like this:
-Font No. :IO59
-Font Pitch :10.00
-Symbol Set :PC-8
-Auto LF :Off
-Auto CR :Off
-Auto WRAP :Off
-Left Margin :0
-Right Margin :80
-Top Margin :0.50
-Bottom Margin :0.50
-Lines :60
Under the <Active Services>, which is under the network settings printout on
page 3, I see this list of services
BRN001BA9E3811F
BINARY_P1
TEXT_P1
POSTSCRIPT_P1
PCL_P1
BRN001BA9E3811F_AT
I get the impression that it loses capabilities when emulating the LaserJet.
But from this, can a suggested driver even be determined? In which case,
please suggest.
I did find a driver that almost works, but the color output has a quite
pronounced magenta overcast to it. And every job sent logs an error to the
cups screen: Unable to write data: broken pipe
So the foomatic LaserJet hp4550 pxlcolor is not the right one, duplex works,
but the color are nasty. I have tried several other "familys" of the HP
LaserJet line, but I generally lose the duplex when I do. I'll see if I can
find the reservoir for all the ppd's and do a little grepping to find those
with duplexing functions. A filter the cups configuration menu is severely
lacking in. Likewise, all these other drivers have no color tweaking
facilities, something the brother drivers can do for every conceivable color
combination.
Later, after some coffee has been absorbed. Up way too darned early for a
retired old fart.
I have not rx'd any replies from bugs.debian.org, is it not setup to do that
automatically?
Thanks all.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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