On 6/10/06, Tracy R Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Urivan Saaib wrote:
> This is the script I use to print book-style documents (both page sides and
> 2 or 4 document pages per sheet)
>
Very cool! I really wish I (or my office) had a duplex printer. People
always cheap out on printers. Does cups or psnup or any of the unix
utils allow for printing of every odd page then reinserting the paper
the other way around and printing again? I have never tried that before
because it seemed like too much work but I've got some pretty big stacks
of paper where I wish I had so I am reconsidering.
Been there, done that, finally bought a printer with hardware duplexing.
$ man psselect
psselect also can reverse the order of printing, so you print e.g.
even pages in reverse order, then flip the stack over and print odd
pages in forward order.
The "duplex algorithm" you use depends on whether your printer stacks
its output face up or face down. Practise on a short document before
going into mass production. If your printer has any tendency to
double-pick (pull two sheets of paper at once) the whole duplex
scheme can be ruined, as the front and back sides get out of phase.
Been there, done that too.
carl
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