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From: Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com>
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Subject: Re: terminal only for two weeks
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kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) writes:

> Salvador Mirzo  <smirzo@example.com> wrote:
>>Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> writes:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>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"
>>*%%%% PPD file for HL-L2360D series with CUPS.
>>*%%%% Created by the CUPS PPD Compiler CUPS v2.4.10.
>
> This appears to be a PPD file for a different printer.  See if CUPS has
> available one for the actual printer you are using.

My printer, which is a Brother HL-L2360DW, is usually called as one that
belongs to the ``Brother HL-L2360D series''.  The Windows driver, for
example, calls it just that.  So I wouldn't think I'd find a more
specific driver.  Thanks for the check!