On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 08:28:34PM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:05:19 -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> >
> > Well, after umch mucking around, the Brother 5250DN works with
> > OO and prints in Duplex only if I turn the dialog to OFF where is
> > say
> >
> > Duplex
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:05:19 -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
>
> Well, after umch mucking around, the Brother 5250DN works with
> OO and prints in Duplex only if I turn the dialog to OFF where is
> say
>
> Duplex __ [arrows]
Do I understand this correctly? Dup
Well, after umch mucking around, the Brother 5250DN works with
OO and prints in Duplex only if I turn the dialog to OFF where is
say
Duplex __ [arrows]
Now that that's resolved, I can change the printer web page
config back to Sim
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:00:20 -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> It's been years since I tried CUPS; it gives me fits. In
> short, it has never worked.
With "modern" printers that are not standard compliant, you
almost have no way around CUPS. Printers that can do PS don't
need any printer f
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 05:40:50PM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 07:23:07 -0400, Bill Moran
> wrote:
> > It works for me, using 3 steps:
> >
> > 1) Use CUPS instead of lpd
>
> CUPS brings its own lpd, so in fact you're still using a lpd,
> even if it's not the system one's. :-)
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 07:23:07 -0400, Bill Moran wrote:
> It works for me, using 3 steps:
>
> 1) Use CUPS instead of lpd
CUPS brings its own lpd, so in fact you're still using a lpd,
even if it's not the system one's. :-)
> 2) Install a PPD for the printer that knows about duplex printing
It s
Gary Kline wrote:
>
> Well, this one was/is bizarre. I finally got my Brother 5250 networked
> printer to print duplex (AKA noth sides :) using
>
> % lpr file
>
> but from OpenOffice, no matter what I do, it only prints on one side.
> Has
> anybody runn ito this
Well, this one was/is bizarre. I finally got my Brother 5250 networked
printer to print duplex (AKA noth sides :) using
% lpr file
but from OpenOffice, no matter what I do, it only prints on one side.
Has
anybody runn ito this before and know how to get
