topic Re: forcing single-sided printing in Operating System - HP-UX

forcing single-sided printing

Vball23 — Fri, 21 Feb 2003 14:52:30 GMT

I have a user printing from an L3000 to an HP network printer. The printer is forcing double-sided printing. I can find no options within the lp command or the driver file to force that back to single-sided. Any suggestions?

Re: forcing single-sided printing

Frank Slootweg — Fri, 21 Feb 2003 15:29:19 GMT

Many model scripts can *print* a summary of the options which they recognize:

lp -d -ooptions somedummytextfile

Re: forcing single-sided printing

Chris Vail — Fri, 21 Feb 2003 15:53:20 GMT

This is probably the default behavior of the printer itself. This can usually be fixed from the LCD display of the printer itself, or whatever workstation is running the management utility for that printer. LP services on Unix are pretty 'dumb' compared to those available in the Windows environment.

Chris

Re: forcing single-sided printing

Steve Steel — Fri, 21 Feb 2003 15:54:00 GMT

Hi

1)On the printer in the print menu double sided is on.

2)The word is simplex

lp -dprinter -osimplex file

Then duplex for 2 sides

see /etc/lp/interface/model.orig/printer

echo "********* Option Summary *********"
echo "(see \"man net_lj4x\" for details)\n"
echo "\033&k2S\c" # use compressed font
echo "auto (default), postscript, pcl, hpgl2, hpgl2_p, raw, relay"
echo "manual, tray1, tray2, tray3 "
echo "legal, letter, A4, exec, ledger/11x17, com10"
echo "yb, nb bin1, bin2"
echo "dpi# simplex, duplex, hduplex "
echo "2up, 2+, 4up (hpux only) portrait, landscape "
echo "color, gray "
echo "ascii,text econo# (#=on/off)"
# draw box
echo "\033&a"$boxtopY"v"$boxleftX"H\033*c4h1440v0P\033*c2880h4v0P\c"
echo "\033&a"$boxbottomY"v"$boxleftX"H\033*c2880h4v0P\c"
echo "\033&a"$boxtopY"v"$boxrightX"H\033*c4h1440v0P\c"

In the script look for
duplex="def"

and replace with

duplex="simplex"

Then always 1 sided print.

Steve Steel