HP P1606dn duplexer issues in 3.10.6

[Denis Auroux]

Duplex support for the LJ Pro P1606dn still doesn't work properly in 3.10.6. I've configured the paper as "Letter AutoDuplex" (whoever invented different paper sizes for duplex??) and double-sided printing is set to "Long edge (standard)". When printing from Acrobat, the even pages are upside down (i.e., as if duplex were set to Short edge (flip)), and when printing a ps file with lpr, it's even worse, the even pages come out completely blank (paper goes through the duplex unit but half of the pages are not printed).

(It's not your fault but I'm really annoyed that HP advertises this model as "professional" and Linux-supported when really the hardware is a piece of junk and the driver doesn't work properly).

If it helps:

HPLIP 3.10.6 currently installed in '/usr/share/hplip'.

ljhome
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Type: Printer
Device URI: hp:/net/HP_LaserJet_Professional_P1606dn?ip=192.168.1.103
PPD: /etc/cups/ppd/ljhome.ppd
PPD Description: HP LaserJet Professional p1606dn, hpcups 3.10.6, requires proprietary plugin
Printer status: printer ljhome is idle. enabled since Thu 26 Aug 2010 09:43:15 PM PDT ready to print
Optional plug-in status: Installed
Communication status: Good

[Anna (avingani)]

Same issue here.

It doesn't matter what paper or duplex options I pick (except none), I always get the "flip" duplex outcome instead of Long edge.

Same version of hplip. same printer.

Tried with gnome and kde.

Interesting fact: when using kde the printer ignores completly the options selected with hplip and uses the options selected in the printers section of system settings

running (K)Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit

[Denis Auroux (auroux)]

Anna: I fixed my problem by giving up on hplip, and instead configuring
the printer as a Generic PCL5e compatible printer using the
"gutenprint-ijs-simplified" driver provided by foomatic. With this
generic driver the duplex feature works just fine for me, and I think
printing may even be slightly faster. (You might be losing on some of
the fancy resolution-enhancing features though -- I'm not sure).

Denis

[Hemagiri Bhagawathi (hemagiri-bhagawathi)]

Hi Denis Auroux and Anna,

Please update latest version of HPLIP pack i.e. 3.10.9 from http://hplipopensource.com website. This duplex printing issue is fixed in new release pack ( for HP LaserJet Professional P1606dn NW device).

Let me know if you face any problem.

Thanks,
Hemagiri Bhagawathi

[Hemagiri Bhagawathi (hemagiri-bhagawathi)]

Hi Denis Auroux and Anna,

Please update latest version of HPLIP pack i.e. 3.10.9 from http://hplipopensource.com website. This duplex printing issue is fixed in new release pack ( for HP LaserJet Professional P1606dn NW device).
Let me know if you face any problem.

Thanks,
Hemagiri Bhagawathi

[Denis Auroux (auroux)]

On 10/20/2010 09:59 PM, Hemagiri Bhagawathi wrote:
> Please update latest version of HPLIP pack i.e. 3.10.9 from http://hplipopensource.com website. This duplex printing issue is fixed in new release pack ( for HP LaserJet Professional P1606dn NW device).
> Let me know if you face any problem.

Thanks a lot! Duplex printing now comes with the correct edge flipped,
and print quality is good and fast.

However: I just tried printing a 4-page document with the default
settings (all I changed from the default settings upon installing the
printer with hp-setup was to switch on the duplex option): it first
output a sheet with page 1 on top, page 2 underneath; then a sheet with
page 3 on top, page 4 underneath. Hence, the pages are sorted
incorrectly (the document is in order: 3,4,1,2). This is probably an
issue with face-up vs. face-down, or printing odd sides before/after
even sides. Still not ideal. (Can probably be fixed easily by tinkering
with the driver options).

Denis

[Hemagiri Bhagawathi (hemagiri-bhagawathi)]

Hi Denis,

As you mentioned the output printed pages are not in proper order. The printing order most follow in this manner (2,1,4,3,6,5...) which is still needs correction. We will be planing it to support it in the coming release.

Thanks,
Hemagiri Bhagawathi

[Suma Byrappa (suma-byrappa)]

Marked Status to Confirmed as page ordering needs to be fixed yet.
Assigned appropriate Importance.

[Tobias Muhlhofer (tobias-muhlhofer)]

I upgraded my hplip to version 3.10.9 and am still facing the same problem as mentioned originally: duplexing only works as short-edge, even when set to long-edge. Incorrect page order also applies. I am attaching the output from my hp-check.

[Anna (avingani)]

The "long edge duplex" issue still remains with hplip-3.11.1

[Uros Jurglic (jurglic)]

Hello!

We are expereincing problems with duplex and short vs edge printing as well!

With latest hplip-3.11.3a we still get long-edge (tumble=false) no matter what we set via cups. We have tested through different applications as well as directly via cups lp command.

We are very interested in solving this issue! Can someone provide some more information where we could start digging into the code? It seems like a trivial bug...

Thanks!

Uros

[Simon Polak (smnplk)]

We are experiencing exactly the same problem here. When can we expect a fix for this bug ?

[Bojan (bojan007)]

Hi guys. I also have a HP P1606dn printer connected to openSuSE 11.4 (hplip 3.11.1a) and I just cannot manage to make the thing work properly. No option for duplex (two-sided) printing is shown, neither in any of the applications nor in the hplip manager. How did you manage to get duplex printing at all. Is anyone brave enough to share the secret with me :-)

Thanks,
Bojan

[Mustafa Kilinc (mrkilinc)]

Hello Bojan,
Install hplip-cups and use cups driver...Not ijs

I am using Debian Squeeze. My version is 3.10.6-2. And I have problems with duplex printing as well and page ordering..
Mustafa

[Lucas De Michiel (lucasdemichiel)]

I have the same problem with printer hp 1606dn on opensuse 11.4, and i update hplip and every thing every day

it prints like this:

2 1 4 3 6 5 8 7 ... all bakwards

i tried all but i cant manage my self to fix it

[Sanjay Kumar (sanjay-kumar14)]

Hello,

Sorry for the late response. We will work on it and provide the solution asap. Sorry for the inconvenience caused.

[Tim Macdonald (tsmacdonald)]

I can't do duplex whatsoever--the option is grayed out in the printer settings window. hp-check throws several errors, but I'm able to print single-sided things perfectly...so I'm not yet convinced that the two issues are correlated.

[alveral (alvarojaviervera-a)]

Hi! I was trying with different controllers and trying to fix unorder page printing. I get some solution, may be is not best, but is working.

I just reinstall hplip (uninstalling with same program old controler) and I install and detect my HP 1606dn like 2015dn, selecting another controller before finish install.

With this change, I was printing in normal way, I mean, sheet in order 1,2,3,4 (deselect in printing panel "Order Page")

I hope this can be usefull for you.

Take care.

Alveral.-

[Sanjay Kumar (sanjay-kumar14)]

Fix is available for this issue in HPLIP 3.12.2 and 3.12.4 release. Sorry for updating the status so late.

[Petr Ospalý (ospaly)]

Hi,
as I posted elsewhere (https://launchpad.net/~ospaly)

Our new printer HP LaserJet Pro P1606dn prints in incorrect order too (2 1 4 3 ...) with hplip 3.12.4 - I went through setup and didn't find anything what could cause this problem. (system CentOS 6.5).

So I don't think it was solved...

[Petr Ospalý (ospaly)]

Sorry for bad link in https://bugs.launchpad.net/hplip/+bug/625106/comments/20

It should have been this: https://answers.launchpad.net/hplip/+question/165513

[ghomem (gustavo)]

On HPLIP 3.13.5 the status is:

- long edge duplex order is OK
- without duplex order is messed up: 2, 1, 4, 3, 6, 5

This bug is market as fixed in the release notes for HPLIP 3.11.12

http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/release_notes.html

Can the dev team comment?