Public bug reported:
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/Double-Sided Printing: PickOne
*OrderDependency: 130 AnySetup *Duplex
*DefaultDuplex: DuplexNoTumble
*Duplex DuplexNoTumble/Long Edge (Standard): "<</Duplex true /Tumble
false>>setpagedevice"
*Duplex DuplexTumble/Short Edge (Flip): "<</Duplex true /Tumble
true>>setpagedevice"
*Duplex None/Off: "<</Duplex false>>setpagedevice"
*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)
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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duplex printing through CUPS no longer works
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/308817
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