On 08.10.2010 14:33:52 David Hurcomb wrote: > On 08/10/2010 12:55, Jeremias Maerki wrote: > > FOP uses the&lnS command to enable duplex mode. But that may not be the > > right command for all printers. > > > > If you post the exact model name of the two printers, I'll download the > > tech manuals and take a look. Maybe they need some special command to > > actually do duplex. > > > I have tried my main printer is a Kyocera (FS-9130DN) they push you > towards printing using their own PRESCRIBE language , but it does use > PCL emulator (set up by the PRESCRIBE command !R!SIR2;EXIT;)
There seems to be some level of auto-sensing, so the exit command should probably not be necessary. Anyway, I didn't find any PCL-specific information in the manuals concerning duplex printing. > > You could also generate two simple duplex documents with the printers' > > drivers and send them to me. That might allow me to reverse engineer the > > required commands. > > > I have created the attached from notepad.exe - is there a better way (on > MS)? I had expected to see the PRESCRIBE code DUPX1 or DUPX2 for long > edge and short edge respectively. Notepad should be fine as long as you get two pages. But apparently, that printer driver produced PCL-XL/PCL6 rather than PCL 5 which FOP produces. What I did find out is that there is a PJL command that allows to control duplexing. But FOP currently has no facility to add custom PJL commands. You could try to insert them by hand for a test. @PJL SET DUPLEX=ON @PJL SET BINDING=LONGEDGE No guarantees that it'll work. Another possibility you could investigate is to print against the printer's native driver using FOP's print renderer. The Java Printing API offers to control a wide range of parameters. But again, I cannot guarantee a good outcome. There should be numerous tutorials on the Java Printing API on the net. Good luck! Jeremias Maerki --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: fop-users-unsubscr...@xmlgraphics.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: fop-users-h...@xmlgraphics.apache.org
