From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thorsten Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [printing] duplex doesn't work (Thorsten) Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 00:53:29 +0200 Message-ID: <86list4w0m.fsf@googlemail.com> References: <86pqia57p6.fsf@googlemail.com> <20111008190525.GB7078@srevilak.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1318200835 22274 80.91.229.12 (9 Oct 2011 22:53:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2011 22:53:55 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 10 00:53:51 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RD2Fj-0000OI-Oa for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Oct 2011 00:53:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47536 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RD2Fj-0003d5-4a for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Oct 2011 18:53:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:51077) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RD2Fe-0003cw-Kg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Oct 2011 18:53:47 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RD2Fd-00069O-I7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Oct 2011 18:53:46 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:58662) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RD2Fd-00068P-Bq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Oct 2011 18:53:45 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RD2Fb-0000M2-JX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Oct 2011 00:53:43 +0200 Original-Received: from e178117141.adsl.alicedsl.de ([85.178.117.141]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 10 Oct 2011 00:53:43 +0200 Original-Received: from quintfall by e178117141.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 10 Oct 2011 00:53:43 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: e178117141.adsl.alicedsl.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:WFHdwnhPAHXFwvTBKJb3pe/7Et0= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:82515 Archived-At: Steve Revilak writes: > My linux distribution uses CUPS. Via CUPS, I've configured duplex as > a default option for print jobs. To see if CUPS is installed on your > system, visit in your web browser of choice. > If you see a page with the word "CUPS", then that is probably what > your system is using to print, and you use this web interface to > configure duplex as a default option. Maybe this is all you need to > do. Perfect, this did the job, now duplex printing works fine in Emacs too. Thanks a lot for your long and informative answer - it helped me to get rid of a problem that annoyed me for quite some time now. Cheers -- Thorsten