Full duplex printing

[Luke Morgan]

Hi,

Apologies if this is a lame question.
I have been asked if my UNIX box can print
full duplex to an HP 4100c printer...
The box is running HPUX 10.20.
I am assuming that it won't have a problem,
but can anyone confirm or deny this for me please.

Many thanks

Luke

[Patrick Wallek]

What do you mean "full duplex printing"? Are you talking about 2-sided printing? If so, then yes it should work. It will depend entirely on the model script you use and if duplex printing is a supported option in the model script.

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

Hi Luke:

I'm a little confused by your term 'full duplex' since that would have meaning only in network protocols. I suspect that you mean simply 'duplex' - two-sided printing. If the latter, then that depends upon the interface file that you choose. Look in your interface for 'duplex' and that will show you which -o option to use.

Typically the command is something like
lp -dmyprinter -o duplex myfile

[Luke Morgan]

Yeah, I did mean two-sided.
Apologies for the term used, should have
thought about it. Just copied the request
I was sent.

[Uday_S_Ankolekar]

Hi,

You can use -odouble or -oduplex for double side printing..

lp -d -o double filename

-USA..

[Gregory Fruth]

If you installed the printer using JetAdmin, you can
get a complete list of the options the interface script
supports by doing a "man net_ljx000" or somesuch.
Look in /opt/hpnp/man/man1/ for the man pages
that were installed with JetAdmin. The option is
typically "lp -oduplex filename".

This presumes, of course, that the printer
has a duplexer unit installed.

HTH

[Luke Morgan]

Thank you all for your suggestions.
Im pretty sure I now know how to do it.

Luke