On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 01:28, Mike McCarty wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 23:35, Mike McCarty wrote: > > > >>david walcroft wrote: > >> > >>>Mike, > >>> Look in 'http://localhost:631/printers' > config printers. > >>>You should find double sided printing check box. Also give the newer > >>>print package "Hplip" a go. > >>> > >>> david > >>> > >> > >>Further fiddling seemingly has allowed me to create another > >>queue associated with that printer, and which does two-up > >>printing. But still no hint of how to do double-sided without > >>a duplexer. > > > > > > If you print postscript to a file, you should be able to > > use psselect with -o and -e to extract the odd/even pages > > so you can print one, flip the stack and print the other. > > Nice tip. I am not familiar with psselect. I'll look into > that. It would be nice if I could select a queue option > for it, though, like with Windows, and not have to do > the "print to file, run two manual print jobs, delete file" > stuff. You can script anything you want in a queue, but there is no relationship between the queue and your terminal. What should happen if someone else sends a job while you have the flipped stack in the printer? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
