Two-sided printing

[Robert Meyer]

--- josephj at buffnet.net wrote:
> Hi.  I have an HP895cse printer on the parallel port of my PII running
> Mandrake 9.1 rc2.  I currently use cups to drive it. I think the driver
> itself is the one HP released for Linux - something like hpijs, but I
> don't remember how to get it to tell me.
> 
> Anyway, almost all of the printing I do is two-sided. I want that to be
> the default for the printer.  Some applications like Open Office have a
> two-sided option on the print panel, but it's disabled.  Others, like
> Gedit don't even show it.

Use 'xpp' to print from the applications, rather than 'lpr'.  When you try to
print, xpp will bring up a dialog box that will let you do just about anything
with the printer that it is capable of.
> 
> I have a work-around in Open Office, but it's ugly and error prone.  I
> print all right pages reverse and then feed them back in and print all
> left pages forward.  It works for even page counts (and for odd ones if I
> remember not to put the last page back in.)  I told you it was ugly!

'xpp' should work here, too.

Let me know how that works out.

Cheers!

Bob

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Bob Meyer
Knightwing Communications, Inc.
36 Cayuga Blvd
Depew, NY 14043
Phone: 716-308-8931 or 716-681-0076
Meyer_RM at Yahoo.com

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