[RndTbl] Duplex printing in Thunderbird

Mike Pfaiffer high.res.mike at gmail.com
Wed Sep 12 00:58:05 CDT 2012


	In the roundtable discussion this evening I made a comment about how 
Thunderbird wasn't printing double sided pages on my duplex printer. 
Oddly enough just about all the other applications (Open Office etc,) 
worked properly. Adam suggested it was probably something in CUPS. I 
figured that since everything else appeared to work that wasn't the 
case. Well hats off to Adam. He called that problem correctly. It WAS CUPS.

	The solution... At 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ghostscript/+bug/885118 they 
suggested going into the CUPS web configuration directly at 
http://localhost:631/ to make the changes. I took a look at the 
defaults. It was set for single sided printing. I made that change and 
it whined about not having the duplexer enabled. I told CUPS it was 
there. Now I get the proper options (at least the one I want) in 
Thunderbird. I'll try it out later and see if that actually solved the 
problem.

	On another note. Thanks again Rob. I'll pass along the URL to someone 
who knows someone who knows someone and see if I can get something from 
China. If it all works I'll do a demo for both the MWCS and MUUG 
(assuming I still have the antennas I built - I WILL need a ride home 
from someone that day and maybe a pickup as well).

				Later
				Mike


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