New printer?

[Robert Meyer]

If your printer supports duplex operation, you should be able to make 'xpp' do
it.  If you have a simplex printer, then, no matter what you do, you will have
to babysit the thing so that you can flip and feed the paper.

Cheers!

Bob
--- Asheville Joe <josephj at main.nc.us> wrote:
> Thanks.  You told me about xpp previously and I do use it when I have to 
> do something special.  It's just a pain to have to print everything 
> twice to get both sides.  That's why I wrote my duplex printing 
> simulator utility.  It works, but it doesn't know about all the fancy 
> options that xpp handles.
> 
> I really want to get past having to shuffle the paper in and out for 
> every job - which also means that I can't queue print jobs and go away.  
> I did write a primitive print queue handler for use with duplex and use 
> it all the time, but I still have to babysit it and shuffle each job.
> 
> Joe
> 
> Robert Meyer wrote:
> 
> >Well, first of all, I would start using 'xpp' for printing.  It will bring
> up a
> >dialog box similar to the type of thing you would get in windows that will
> give
> >you all of the options that the printer supports.  If the printer type is
> >called out by type in the driver, then you should be able to do it.
> >
> >You should also be able to control the resolution and printing modes, which
> are
> >the typical slowdowns on a printer.  Stuffing out text in photo mode is
> >obviously bad but dropping to 300DPI draft mode will spray out text pretty
> >quick.
> >
> >That should get you to where you want to be without buying a new printer.
> >
> >Cheers!
> >
> >Bob
> >--- Asheville Joe <josephj at main.nc.us> wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>I'm thinking about getting a new printer.  I have an HP Deskjet 895 Cse 
> >>which works just fine with two exceptions:
> >>
> >>1) Under Linux, it prints about 2ppm at normal color resolution (and I 
> >>don't know enough to fine tune the ps to pcl process, etc. to make it go 
> >>faster).  It's a whole lot faster in Windoze.
> >>
> >>2) It doesn't do 2-sided (duplex) printing by itself (and that's almost 
> >>all the printing I do.)  I've emulated duplex, but I still have to 
> >>shufffle the pages in out and back in, one print job at a time.
> >>
> >>So, what I want is a similar printer that does duplex.   It has to be 
> >>fully supported under Linux, of course.  I'm not sure, but it seems like 
> >>a printer that can do native postscript (I have no idea if I need level 
> >>1, 2, or 99) would run a lot faster than one that does PCL, etc. where 
> >>the CPU has to translate all the ps to soemthing else before anything 
> >>prints.
> >>
> >>Any suggestions?
> >>
> >>-- 
> >>"One does not discover the new lands without consenting to lose sight of
> the
> >>shore for a very long time." --Andre Gide
> >>
> >>
> >>    
> >>
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