[RndTbl] Duplex printing in Thunderbird
Mike Pfaiffer
high.res.mike at gmail.com
Wed Sep 12 00:58:05 CDT 2012
In the roundtable discussion this evening I made a comment about how
Thunderbird wasn't printing double sided pages on my duplex printer.
Oddly enough just about all the other applications (Open Office etc,)
worked properly. Adam suggested it was probably something in CUPS. I
figured that since everything else appeared to work that wasn't the
case. Well hats off to Adam. He called that problem correctly. It WAS CUPS.
The solution... At
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ghostscript/+bug/885118 they
suggested going into the CUPS web configuration directly at
http://localhost:631/ to make the changes. I took a look at the
defaults. It was set for single sided printing. I made that change and
it whined about not having the duplexer enabled. I told CUPS it was
there. Now I get the proper options (at least the one I want) in
Thunderbird. I'll try it out later and see if that actually solved the
problem.
On another note. Thanks again Rob. I'll pass along the URL to someone
who knows someone who knows someone and see if I can get something from
China. If it all works I'll do a demo for both the MWCS and MUUG
(assuming I still have the antennas I built - I WILL need a ride home
from someone that day and maybe a pickup as well).
Later
Mike
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