can't print to pages on a single side of paper

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#21

....or does anybody know how to set the default language of the printer in a configuration file?

#22

Hi :slight_smile:
When you choose
File - Print
do you get a dialogue-box that gives various options?  Is one of the options "double-sided" or "two sided"?  Ok, that's a bit obvious but obvious things get missed sometimes while looking for a more complicated answer.

In the print dialogue-box do you have an option to choose which printer and to set the "Properties" of the printer?  i think there might be an option in there.

I doubt printers can be set to over-ride commands and force double-sided printing but it might help us to know what  printer you have got.

Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#23

Hi,
No, I haven't a dialog-box for "double-sided" or "two sided". The Options for double sided printing (duplex) is set through the properties of the printer. The Problem is not duplex but Pages per Sheet (don't know if this is correct labeling, my gui is in german: "Seiten pro Blatt" in Page Layout (Seitenlayout))
Setting Pages per Sheet to two make the printer eject a paper an let him flash a warning light of missing paper (maybe wrong paper size - but I left it to A4).
Setting the Printer Language (Druckersprache) from PDF to Postscript (level of the driver) solves the problem...

regards

ToK

#24

Hi :slight_smile:
So is that one of the problems solved? Please could you post the other
q1uestions as new mails to the ilst so that you can make the subject-lines
relevant to the questions?
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#25

No, this problem isn't solved. The first mail is from october, 28th. This E-Mail should be replies of the original mail.
So I think I shoudn't start a new subject-line. But anyway - here is the message of the first E-Mail

I have a strange problem - and I have to admint: I don't know if it belongs to llibreoffice only. So here is the Problem:
I'm using a HP Officjet Pro k8600dn and I can't print to pages on a sheet of paper. If I start a print job the paper gets loaded and the printer hangs. I could only bring it back to live if I switch it off and on again. The problem does only appear if the printer language is set to PDF (the default) in LibreOffice. If I set it to PostScript (level of the driver) the printer works as expected.
On the other hand: I have an old HP Laserjet 5L. With it the two-pages-on-a-sheet-printing works (but the orientation is wrong - but that's another problem).

Here is my software:
OperationSystem: Linux (Archlinux - both the same error)
LibreOffice: 3.4.2
CUPS: 1.5.0
hplip: 3.11.10

The Software has changed - in the first message I used OpenSuse RC1, too - which had the same Problem. The final release doesn't have the problem.

Regards

ToK

#26

Good Morning, Happy New Year for all !

#27

As a workaround I could set up a second printer with the setting 2 pages per sheet.

But this doesn't answers why LibreOffice can't do it by itself - or even why LibreOffice sends a PDF-File to cups - or how to setup up LibreOffice to send a PS-File to cups as default.

Mysterious... :wink:

Regards

ToK

#28

Hi Thomas,

Thomas Knierim wrote (31-12-11 17:14)

I've waited for some updates but it's still not ok! Opensuse 12.1
doesn't has the problem, but I don't know why my favorite
distribution (Archlinux) still isn't able to print to side-by-side.

I never had a problem with this on Ubuntu.
So indeed, has to be a problem related to ArchLinux.

Does anybody know how to set up a printer using spadim. I always get
the message, the filesystem is read only....

Sorry, Linux/printer admin is not something for which I can be of any help.
I would expect that lists/fora related to ArchLinux are more logic places to ask.

Regards,

#29

Hi Cor

Hi Thomas,

Thomas Knierim wrote (31-12-11 17:14)

I've waited for some updates but it's still not ok! Opensuse 12.1
doesn't has the problem, but I don't know why my favorite
distribution (Archlinux) still isn't able to print to side-by-side.

I never had a problem with this on Ubuntu.

Yes, you are right. Ubuntu doesn't has this problem

So indeed, has to be a problem related to ArchLinux.

No, it's not a problem related to ArchLinux. OpenSuse RC had the same Problem. Maybe there are more distris. I haven't checked them all :wink:

Does anybody know how to set up a printer using spadim. I always get
the message, the filesystem is read only....

Sorry, Linux/printer admin is not something for which I can be of any help.
I would expect that lists/fora related to ArchLinux are more logic places to ask.

You are right if it is a Arch-specific problem. But the write-permission is a problem of every distri I tried in the last month (as far as I remember)...

#30

Olá jorge,

Gracias

Um abraço,

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