Re: lp and duplex

[Aly Dharshi <aly dharshi uleth ca>]

This is rather surprising. I thought that this would be something like
the solaris lp command where you could issue a -o duplex and it would do
the trick.

I know there is the -Z switch to lpr and its suprising that I would have
to setup a script to do this surely there is an easier solution ?

	Thanks and Cheers,

	Aly.

On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 09:32, steffen grunewald aei mpg de wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 09:10:18AM -0600, Aly Dharshi wrote:
> > Hi Folks,
> > 
> > 	Would anybody know how to print to a duplexer, we have an HP 2300DN
> > (jetdirect card) and I tried lpr -Zduplex and zippo, am I missing
> > something.
> > 
> > 	Are there any lp commands, I print using lp -d cs5 for instance and it
> > works fine.
> 
> Usually the duplexer on these models is activated by @PJL commands.
> If you're using CUPS you might be able to set up the printer in such a
> way that it defaults to duplex (@PJL SET DUPLEX=ON and @PJL SET BINDING
> =LONGEDGE), otherwise you might think of writing a small wrapper filter
> script which takes an input file, prepends some PJL code to the file
> contents, and sends it to stdout - where you can pick it up and pipe it to 
> lp or lpr
> 
> Steffen
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