Dear Till and All,

I run into a very similar problem on Debian Lenny. I understand that this is the bug list for Ubuntu, but maybe someone can help me to fix my problem. My printer is Ricoh Aficio 2035, no PS support is available (only PXL).

I tried to create a new .deb package using the source Ubuntu package in Intrepid (foomatic-filters_4.0.0-0ubuntu3). I successfully created the package and installed on Lenny. Unfortunately I cannot print duplex after the upgrade. Here are my related packages:

csupor:~# dpkg -l | grep cups
ii  cups                                1.3.8-1lenny4.1            Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - server
ii  cups-bsd                            1.3.8-1lenny4.1            Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - BSD comman
ii  cups-client                         1.3.8-1lenny4.1            Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - client pro
ii  cups-common                         1.3.8-1lenny4.1            Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - common fil
ii  cups-driver-gutenprint              5.0.2-4                    printer drivers for CUPS
ii  cups-pdf                            2.4.8-3                    PDF printer for CUPS
ii  cupsddk                             1.2.3-5                    CUPS Driver Development Kit
ii  cupsddk-drivers                     1.2.3-5                    CUPS Driver Development Kit - Driver files
ii  cupsys                              1.3.8-1lenny4.1            Common UNIX Printing System (transitional pa
ii  cupsys-bsd                          1.3.8-1lenny4.1            Common UNIX Printing System (transitional pa
ii  cupsys-client                       1.3.8-1lenny4.1            Common UNIX Printing System (transitional pa
ii  cupsys-common                       1.3.8-1lenny4.1            Common UNIX Printing System (transitional pa
ii  cupsys-driver-gimpprint             5.0.0-3                    printer drivers for CUPS
ii  cupsys-driver-gutenprint            5.0.2-4                    printer drivers for CUPS
ii  libcups2                            1.3.8-1lenny4.1            Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - libs
ii  libcupsimage2                       1.3.8-1lenny4.1            Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - image libs
ii  libcupsys2                          1.3.8-1lenny4.1            Common UNIX Printing System (transitional pa
csupor:~# dpkg -l | grep foomatic
ii  foomatic-db                         20080211-2+nmu1            OpenPrinting printer support - database
ii  foomatic-db-engine                  3.0.2-20080211-1           OpenPrinting printer support - programs
ii  foomatic-db-gutenprint              5.0.2-4                    OpenPrinting printer support - database for 
ii  foomatic-db-hpijs                   20080211-1                 OpenPrinting printer support - database for 
ii  foomatic-filters                    4.0.0-0ubuntu3             OpenPrinting printer support - filters
ii  foomatic-filters-ppds               20080528-2.1               OpenPrinting printer support - prebuilt PPD 

I also tried to get the newest PPD file from foomatic-db, so I copied the Ricoh-Aficio_2035_PXL.ppd file from the foomatic-db_20080918-0ubuntu4 package, without success.

My last idea is to use an Ubuntu server instead of Lenny for this special purpose, but I am not sure that it will solve my problem, because as I can understand, I already use the most recent software responsible for printing.

Any help is greatly appreciated and thank you in advance.