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From: Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com>
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Subject: Re: terminal only for two weeks
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2025 22:56:39 -0300
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Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> writes:

> Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> writes:
>
>> Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> wrote:
>>> Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.netREMOVE.invalid> writes:
>>> 
>>>>>>>>> On 2025-01-16, Salvador Mirzo wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  > I suspect I imagine wrong how things actually work.  I thought
>>>>  > perhaps there would be a command line such as ``lpr --pages 7-14''.
>>>>
>>>>       As has already been pointed in this thread, CUPS, a fairly
>>>>       common choice for a printer spooler in GNU/Linux systems,
>>>>       provides lp(1) command that does have just such an option.
>>> 
>>> Thanks for the information.  It turns out I'm not being able to print
>>> two-sided-long-edge with CUPS and my Brother HL-L2360DW.  I resorted to
>>> using /etc/printcap and lpd's lpr (not CUPS's lpr) because I can then
>>> set my printer to always do two-sided-long-edge, which is nearly 100% of
>>> the way I print.
>>
>> Sounds like an incorrect PPD, which is where the various options come
>> from.
>> I have a HL220dw and CUPS supports both simplex and duplex printing,
>> selectable at the time I print.
>
> Awesome news.  I've tried hacking my PPD a file a bit, but
> unsuccessfully.  I've reported my attempts to
>
>   comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc.
>
> Would you be so kind to share your PPD?  I could perhaps get more clues
> seeing one PPD file that really works.  I have suspected mine could be
> faulty, but I know so little about PPDs and PostScript.  My greatest
> insight so far is that the PPD file houses small PostScript snippets
> that PostScript-generating software that use to make the printer do one
> thing or another.  Here's my full PPD in use. FWIW:
>
> *PPD-Adobe: "4.3"

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