Printing duplex does not work
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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evince (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: evince
Hi,
I have a HP OfficeJet 8000 with duplex unit. I could easily set up the printer and the normal operations work without problems. However, I can not use the duplex mode within Evince and OpenOffice. The Print dialog gives me not the opportunity to activate duplex, even though I set it up in the printer settings.
The following steps were made:
- Printer connected via Ethernet
- Add the printer under System-> Administration-> Printing
- In the same program I have set the following three settings:
- Under "Installable Options" I set "Duplexer Installed" enabled
- Under "Printer Options" I set "Media Size" to "A4 Auto Duplex"
- Under "Printer Options" I can configure "Double-sides printing" example "Long edge"
- A PDF is opened with Evince
- Starting printing with STR + P
- In "Page Setup" I can only select "One Sided" within the option "Two-sided"
- Open Office has been opened
- In the OOo printer dialog I can set duplex mode only to "off"
Here is a screenshot of the situation. On the left side the printer configuration, on the right the Evince printing dialog.
When I use the HPLIP Toolbox (package 'hp-gui') for printing, then the duplex mode works without any problems. The same with the Adobe Reader. Is there a way I can print on both sides with the gnome standard programs?
Greetings
Alexander Skrotzky
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: evince 2.30.3-0ubuntu1.1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic i686
NonfreeKernelMo
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Aug 3 17:02:14 2010
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
LANG=de_DE.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evince
Changed in evince (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Incomplete → Confirmed |
Hi,
same problem with HP OfficeJet 8500 Pro (Evince & Openoffice).
Under OpenOffice I’m able to set Duplex (Long Edge), if I set Paper-Format to "A4 AutoDuplex". Sadly it has no effect on printing: Simplex-Mode is used in any case. My workaround is to create a PDF and use hp-print, which is viable, if you don't print many doc/odt-Files in Duplex-Mode like me.
I usually print pdfs, which is bad, because I have not figured out yet how to tell hp-print where to find not-embedded fonts.
kind regards from Dortmund/Germany,
Fabian