* [printing] duplex doesn't work @ 2011-10-06 17:52 Thorsten 2011-10-08 19:05 ` [printing] duplex doesn't work (Thorsten) Steve Revilak 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: Thorsten @ 2011-10-06 17:52 UTC (permalink / raw) To: help-gnu-emacs Using a hp-laserjet under Ubuntu, duplex printing works just fine - except using emacs. I installed the printing package, but activating the duplex option does nothing. So I copy text from an emacs-buffer to gedit to get a nicely formatted duplex print, what is kind of embarrassing, even if nobody looks. How can I make the duplex option work in printing.el? Cheers -- Thorsten ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: [printing] duplex doesn't work (Thorsten) 2011-10-06 17:52 [printing] duplex doesn't work Thorsten @ 2011-10-08 19:05 ` Steve Revilak 2011-10-09 22:53 ` Thorsten 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: Steve Revilak @ 2011-10-08 19:05 UTC (permalink / raw) To: help-gnu-emacs; +Cc: Thorsten [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1762 bytes --] >Using a hp-laserjet under Ubuntu, duplex printing works just fine - >except using emacs. I installed the printing package, but activating the >duplex option does nothing. >So I copy text from an emacs-buffer to gedit to get a nicely formatted >duplex print, what is kind of embarrassing, even if nobody looks. >How can I make the duplex option work in printing.el? >Cheers This could be a emacs, or it could be a factor of the printing system. 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 <http://localhost:631/> 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. I'm familiar with lpr.el (i.e., M-x print-region and friends), but not printing.el. AFAIK, lpr.el delegates work to the system lpr command. If printing.el does something similar, then I'd start by getting lpr to produce duplex. In other words, go to a shell prompt and type lpr YOUR-FILE.txt where YOUR-FILE.txt is a text file that's longer than one page in length. If your file prints as simplex, try lpr -o sides=two-sided-long-edge YOUR-FILE.txt Once you've figured out how to produce two-sided output via lpr, you can (a) use lpoptions to set the options permanently, or (b) figure out how to get emacs to pass those options to lpr. For lpr.el, I believe you can accomplish (b) by customizing the emacs variable `lpr-switches'. Sorry that's not a direct answer to your question, but hopefully it helps you get a little further. Steve [-- Attachment #2: Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 198 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: [printing] duplex doesn't work (Thorsten) 2011-10-08 19:05 ` [printing] duplex doesn't work (Thorsten) Steve Revilak @ 2011-10-09 22:53 ` Thorsten 0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: Thorsten @ 2011-10-09 22:53 UTC (permalink / raw) To: help-gnu-emacs Steve Revilak <steve@srevilak.net> 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 <http://localhost:631/> 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
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