CUPS help?

Mark Komarinski mkomarinski at wayga.org
Thu Feb 20 14:04:28 EST 2003


On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 10:19:42AM -0500, pll at lanminds.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 21:39:09 EST
> Mark Komarinski said:
> 
> >Make sure the PPD has duplexing defined.  I had a problem with this
> >years ago, and the printer I have now has a duplexer by default, so it's
> >not a problem.  I'm going to guess that duplexing is an option for your
> >particular printer.
> >
> >Where to look in the PPD?  If my crusty memory is correct, you can search
> >on duplex in it and see if it's set to on or off (yes, no, si, non, whatever).
> >Toggle it and restart PPD.  Try again.
> 
> I did this, and I also grabbed the actual ppd from a local Windows 
> box configured to use this printer.  Still nothing.  Then, for some 
> reason, I decided to run nmap on the printer, and lo-and-behold, I 
> see that port 9100 is open (i.e. the JedDirect port :)
> 
> So, I switched my config from using ipp://hostname:631/ to
> using socket://hostname:9100, and everything works just ducky :)

...but single-sided printing was working before this change?  Strange...

-Mark
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