Re: [cups-devel] Duplex printing on Brother HL-3150cdw

Michael Sweet <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.printing.cups.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Eric,

The driver isn't exposing 2-sided printing using the proper, supported option name (Duplex).  Please report the bug to Brother...


> On Jan 13, 2016, at 5:16 PM, Éric Brunet <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I have a brand new Brother HL-3150cdw with the official brother drivers on my fedora 
> 23 machine. It works very fine.
> 
> However, there is a small annoyance with Duplex printing. In all the applications I tired 
> (okular, firefox, libreoffice and more), the options for Duplex are greyed-out, as if the 
> printer was not Duplex capable. To change duplex options, one must go to the 
> "Advanced" settings.
> 
> It seems that the problem is that, in the ppd file provided by Brother, the Duplex 
> options are not called Duplex, but BRDuplex. Here is the relevant snip of the .ppd file:
> 
> *OpenUI *BRDuplex/Two-Sided: PickOne 
> Tumble 
> Tumble/Short-Edge Binding: "          " 
> Tumble/Long-Edge Binding: "          " 
> 
> 
> I figured that I would simply add BRDuplex to the lists of possible names, recompile 
> and install cups, and that everything would work.
> It didn't. I did patch cups and cups-filters, installed them, stopped cups.service, 
> removed /var/cache/cups, restarted cups.service, but duplex options are still greyed-
> out in all applications, as without the patch.
> 
> I am attaching the patchs. Did I forget something ? Is there a way to make duplexing 
> working as it should, in an easily selectable way ?
> 
> Thanks for any help...
> 
> Éric Brunet 
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