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I have a network printer (Color-LaserJet-3700-Postscript-(recommended)).
It's capable of duplex printing and duplex printing was working fine
with the lpr command.
However, OO was printing on a single page.and the Duplex option in
printer properties had only "Off" and "<ignore>" options (both of them
printing on a single page). I was able to force duplex printing by going
to Device settings and sellecting "Installed" for the "Duplex Unit", but
that only worked for the current document and the settings were not
saved for the subsequent invocations (which is a bug, I think). I also
tried to set duplex with spadmin (from my user accout and as root), but
that had no effect whatsoever.
In the end I found the solution. Started gnome-print-manager and found
"Duplex unit" in the advanced settings. I turned that on, but the
changes were not propagated to OpenOffice (a bug). Then I deleted
psprint.conf file and everything was working as I wanted it to. OO
recreated that file on the next startup, but the file is now empty
(which is fine).
I tried adding new printer with gnome-cups-manager and that printer
appeared in OO without problems. I don't know why option settings change
wasn't propagated. Maybe because CUPS keeps printer options in
/etc/cups/lpoptions, while the printers are in /etc/cups/printers.conf,
so something was checking timestamp on the later file, but not the
former.
Also, I upgraded to Ubuntu (Dapper) from Debian stable which did not
have CUPS installed and had OO 1.x (forgot the exact version, but it was
not 2.x). It could be that the Ubuntu package scripts were confused with
something.
** Affects: libreoffice (Ubuntu)
Importance: Unknown
Status: New
** Affects: openoffice.org (Ubuntu)
Importance: Wishlist
Status: Won't Fix
** Tags: hardy migrateoootolo
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[Upstream] [hardy] CUPS printer properties are not propagated to OpenOffice
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/48694
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