duplex printing through CUPS no longer works
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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CUPS |
Fix Released
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Medium
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cups (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Intrepid |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
ghostscript (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Intrepid |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Since I moved from Ubuntu 8/04 to a full install of Ubuntu 8.10 on my office machine (desktop i386), the networked
printers that I use---a Canon 3320 and a canon 5180---while set up for double-sided printing (long edge) exactly as
before via CUPS, now insists on printing single-sided. Here is a test PostScript file (sent to the default printer via
'lpr testfile.ps', which used to work well double-sided with Ubuntu 8.04 and still works well with Windows:
%!
% <</Duplex true>> setpagedevice % Uncommenting this does not make a difference
100 100 100 200 rectstroke showpage
100 100 200 100 rectstroke showpage
The double-sided configuration is accepted without complaints by CUPS and correctly acknowledged; the .cpp file reads
*OpenUI *Duplex/
*OrderDependency: 130 AnySetup *Duplex
*DefaultDuplex: DuplexNoTumble
*Duplex DuplexNoTumble/Long Edge (Standard): "<</Duplex true /Tumble false>>
*Duplex DuplexTumble/Short Edge (Flip): "<</Duplex true /Tumble true>>setpagede
*Duplex None/Off: "<</Duplex false>>
*CloseUI: *Duplex
it seems to me that CUPS in this Ubuntu 8.10 context somehow fails to pass well this configuration to the printer.
Note that, on my home computer and home printer, the switch from Ubuntu 8.04 to Ubuntu 8.10 didn't show this problem. There, however, however, I have a USB HP laser printer, which is automatically recognized at installation time with all its properties, so that I only have to configure my preferences, not set up the whole printer. On the other hand, my standard procedure so far with the networked Canon printers has been to ignore make and model number and configure them as Generic PostScript.
Finally, I am not using Gnome but a simple, stripped down version of the window manager fvwm. But I have successfully
used this setup with the same machines and operating system for a couple of years---the problem only arose when I switched to Ubuntu 8.10.
Any lights?
PS
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10
cups 1.3.9-2
I expected to to see double-sided printing
I invariably get single-sided printing (on those networked printers; two-sided works as before on a recognized USB printer)
Changed in cups: | |
status: | Unknown → Fix Released |
Changed in cups: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
I have the same problem with a similar history.
Under 08.04, duplex printing worked fine to a Xerox 5500 and a Xerox Phaser 8550DP.
After upgrading to 08.10, duplexing works on the 5500 but not the 8550DP, as tested by printing the same document through evince.