On Wednesday 25 February 2015 12:54:08 Brian wrote: > On Wed 25 Feb 2015 at 10:00:01 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > May I remind everyone that the cups "test page" is ONE page, and > > therefore cannot, will not, exercise the duplex functions. A 2 page test > > page would be handier than bottled beer for troubleshooting this, but we > > don't have one > > /etc/X11/Xsession is an excellent 2 page test page. Recommended.
Now I am getting somewhere, I just printed the, double sided with lp -dNetwork_printer /etc/X11/Xsession And with this command (after I re-enabled duplex long edge binding) lp -dHL3170CDW /etc/X11/Xsession This is 2 separate cups printers, the first one is at an ip address on my local network, the latter one is via the USB cable. This printer also has a wifi interface, but I figured two ways to drive it was enough. The ethernet data transfer phase is faster than the USB2.0, but its moot speedwise when using duplex mode as its 19 ppm speed when printing straight through drops to about 2 ppm in duplex mode due to all the internal paper shuffling. I suspect that short edge binding would be faster as in the long edge mode I can hear the paper being shuffled around internally for many seconds before I actually hear it make another trip past the drums. But did you ever go to staples and look for a 3 ring binder for landscape printouts? Or a paper punch that could be spaced for that? Donbesilly. Both are made out that elusive stuff called "Pure Unobtainium". I'm sure you've heard of the stuff. :) Maybe in NYC or LA, but this is equ to West Podunk here in Weston WV. Like any printer, it jams occasionally, and 99% of the time it instructs me to open the back door and remove the jam, but have never found anything to remove AND its sufficient to clear the jam if the door is opened far enough to be detected, and closed again. But throw away that sheet of paper when it does come out because it will print you a 2nd, good copy of those 2 pages when it thinks its jammed or whatever. In about 4000 pages so far, I have actually had to remove a crumpled up sheet of paper once. We wore out several HP-4550's in the news dept at the tv station, years ago now, and they jammed much more frequently. And didn't last the 100,000 pages they were rated for either. Anyway, I have apparently made it work, its time to quite poking at it with a stick. If okular and evince can now use it all the time, I am a happy camper, at least in this park. A clue? update-manager just installed about 6 packages, and 2 were iceweasal and cups-common, and it was cups-common that I filed the bug against. But I had it working nominally 1 or 2 hours before the updates were done. As a friend with Vermont roots says, Co-inky-dance. :) Thank you all for putting up with me. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> -- 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/201502251552.50296.ghesk...@wdtv.com
