How to disable printing double-sided?

[Marko_3]

Hi all

I have set up a LP spooler on my HP Unix server. However I realise that it always print double-sided instead of printing the next page on a separate sheet of paper when I issue a 'lp -dprinter_id document.txt' command.

How can I make it print on a separate sheet of paper for the 2nd and subsequent pages?

Thanks

[Lai Nee Shyang_1]

Hi Marko,

You may want to check the interface script at /etc/lp/interface. The name of the script is your printer name. Check if you have something like this :
reverse="" # Use this line if page reversing IS NOT desired
#reverse="yes" # Use this line if page reversing IS desired

I found this in /usr/lib/lp/model/laserjet5Si script.

Another quick and dirty method is to turn off duplexing on your printer itself.

Lai

[Thomas Kollig]

Hi!

If you are printing a postscript file, then you can add a header to choose single/double sided printing. Some scripts for this can be found here:
http://www.arl.wustl.edu/~mwa/Source/
(look for spr, dpr, tpr)

Hope this helps,

Thomas