CUPS help?

[Bill Sconce]

On Wed, 19 Feb 2003 15:57:35 -0500
pll at lanminds.com wrote:

> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm playing with cups.  So far I've been able to get printing to 
> actually work, however, now I'm trying to get things like duplex 
> working and having a tough time.
> 
> I can get 2/4 up per side working okay, but I can't, for the life of 
> me get duplex working.  The cups error log simply states:
> 
> 	Print file was not accepted (client-error-bad-request)!
> 
> I'm trying to use:
> 
> 	lp -o page-ranges=1-2 -o portrait -o sides=two-sided cups.ps
> 
> I can get the page-ranges working just fine, just not the two-sided.
> I've tried:
> 		sides=two-sided
> 		sides=two-sided-long-edge
> 		sides=two-sided-short-edge
> 
> and none of them seem to work.  The printer definitely supports 
> duplex printing, since I can:
> 
>    a2ps -BRj --sides=2 --columns=2 --rows=2 --major=columns -o cups-4.ps cups.ps
> 
> Then send that to printer via the smbclient print command (the way I 
> have been printing up until now) and it works just fine.
> 
> Any ideas?


That means ANY ideas??

We've been using CUPS for over a year.  Mostly it's just great.
But then, occasionally, when you try something new you get a
message like "client_error_xxxx".  So when it's bad it's HORRID.
Free Software at the limits of the envelope...

Don't get me wrong;  mostly CUPS is just great.  Especially for
auto-announcing configuration changes to the network.

OK, ONE idea, which I can mention to you quickly.  We use xpp
for print requests.  The xpp panel does have checkboxes for duplex
printing.  I can't verify that they work, since no printer here
has the capability.  But the xpp checkboxes for 2-up and 4-up
work fine.  If trying xpp isn't too much trouble, you might be
able to pry into what it sends to CUPS.  (Or if you like it you
might even end up using it for production.)

$.015

-Bill