Alexander, I could reproduce your problem on Oneiric, so no further files/data are needed from you for now.
The problem cannot be solved by doing changes in CUPS, it has to be solved by a fix in LibreOffice. To fulfill your print settings, reverse order and duplex, LibreOffice sends the pages starting with the last page and terminating with the first, to get the reverse order, and for duplex it sends the job with the duplex attribute according to the PPD file of the printer. CUPS does not know about that the job is reverse order. It simple gets a deck of pages and prints them in the order in which they come. The duplex attribute is passed on to the driver and the driver sends a command to the printer to print the pages double-sided. CUPS cannot know that the first page it gets is a front side and not a back side of the sheet, it does not know that the last page is page 1 which has to be a front side. Possible solutions: 1. (Recommended) LibreOffice should not execute reverse order by itself but instead it should send the pages in their original order (page 1 first) and send the job with the reverse-order attribute for CUPS (you do not find it in the PPD, it is and option provided by the CUPS filters, it is "OutputOrder=Reverse"), simply added to the PPD options. Then CUPS has full control about the page management and knows that this is a job which is printed double-sided, in reverse order, and with an odd number of pages. This way CUPS will know to print a blank page before it starts printing the job starting with its last page. 2. LibreOffice could precede such jobs with a blank page. This is AFAIK what evince does. In general, page management (reverse order, selected pages, even/odd pages, N-up, multiple copies, collate, ...) should get concentrated at one point, preferably CUPS and not be done partially by the application and partially by CUPS. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to libreoffice in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/872873 Title: Printing duplex in reverse order doesn't work properly HP Officejet Pro 8500 Status in “libreoffice” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: When using the duplex mode and printing backwards I've always got an empty page as the first page when printing documents with an impair number of pages (3, 5 and so on). This bug might be a duplicate of bug #370591. But now I'm using a HP Officejet Pro 8500 as printer. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: libreoffice 1:3.4.3-3ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3 Architecture: amd64 Date: Wed Oct 12 16:11:22 2011 ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=de_DE:en PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=de_DE.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: libreoffice UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-02 (10 days ago) --- ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3 Architecture: amd64 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Lpstat: device for HP-Officejet-Pro-8500-A909a: usb://HP/Officejet%20Pro%208500%20A909a?serial=MY96K430MF device for Officejet_Pro_8500_A909a: hp:/usb/Officejet_Pro_8500_A909a?serial=MY96K430MF device for Officejet_Pro_8500_A909a_fax: hpfax:/usb/Officejet_Pro_8500_A909a?serial=MY96K430MF MachineType: System manufacturer System Product Name NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Package: cups 1.5.0-8ubuntu1 PackageArchitecture: amd64 Papersize: a4 PpdFiles: Officejet_Pro_8500_A909a: HP Officejet Pro 8500 a909a hpijs, 3.11.7 Officejet_Pro_8500_A909a_fax: HP Fax hpcups HP-Officejet-Pro-8500-A909a: HP Officejet Pro 8500 a909a hpijs, 3.11.7 ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=de_DE:en PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=de_DE.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-12-generic root=UUID=2b8662c4-a153-4b83-b732-17f4bd99e945 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4 Tags: oneiric running-unity Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64 UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-02 (10 days ago) UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare dmi.bios.date: 10/16/2008 dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD dmi.bios.version: ASUS IPN73-BA ACPI BIOS Revision 0105 Targa dmi.board.name: IPN73-BA dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC. dmi.board.version: 1.XX dmi.chassis.asset.tag: 123456789000 dmi.chassis.type: 3 dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufacture dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologies,LTD:bvrASUSIPN73-BAACPIBIOSRevision0105Targa:bd10/16/2008:svnSystemmanufacturer:pnSystemProductName:pvrSystemVersion:rvnASUSTeKComputerINC.:rnIPN73-BA:rvr1.XX:cvnChassisManufacture:ct3:cvrChassisVersion: dmi.product.name: System Product Name dmi.product.version: System Version dmi.sys.vendor: System manufacturer To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/872873/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
