Re: [cups-devel] Duplex printing on Brother HL-3150cdw
Michael Sweet <[email protected]>
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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 > _______________________________________________ > cups-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.cups.org/mailman/listinfo/cups-devel _________________________________________________________ Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer