[COLUG] duplex postscript laser printer [SOLVED]

[Dave]

On May 19, 2008, at 1:47 PM, Dave wrote:

>
> On Apr 5, 2008, at 1:56 PM, Vincent Herried wrote:
>
>> On Saturday 05 April 2008 12:31:37 pm Rob Funk wrote:
>>>> What I'm not clear on is how you specify the duplex option when
>>>> printing from firefox. Does anyone have experience with this and  
>>>> can
>>>> tell me if there will be an option there or if I can just tell the
>>>> printer to always do duplex?
>>
>> OK, I looked.. do a google search to see if you can find the
>> driver for this printer.  the ppd
>>
>> grab a copy of the cups DDK tools.  It can massage the windoz ppd.
>> Then when you are satisfied that you can build a proper ppd for linux
>> buy it.
>>
>> fyi, my printer is a GCC and I got a bunch of errors trying to  
>> convert it for
>> use with linux.  I just deleted the offending lines and let it rip.
>> while my printer does have the duplex feature installed, the ppd I  
>> have
>> supports it.  I may be simplifying this, tho.  My printer has a  
>> http interface
>> that allows me to massage all its options that way in addition to   
>> supporting
>> the ppd options via cups parms.
>
> I'm finally getting around to this. My wife's office picked up the  
> printer (HP Laser Jet P2015d) and I stopped over Saturday hoping I  
> could get it to work for duplex printing fairly easily. I tried  
> installing a new version of hplip among other things but didn't get  
> it to work. It was printing single pages ok (other than margins were  
> a bit off - not certain if some of the things I did caused that or  
> not). So I gave up and took it home and hooked up to my Mac OS X  
> machine and used the Mac/Windows CD that came with it and it of  
> course works fine printing duplex.
>
> So I used the locate command and found the file:
> -rw-rw-r--  1 root  admin  46466 Sep 27  2007 /Library/Printers/PPDs/ 
> Contents/Resources/HP LaserJet P2015.gz
>
> According to my Time Machine backups on the Mac, that file was  
> already there (this is 10.5)
>
> So I checked the Linux machines (CentOS 5) and don't find that file.  
> Here is the closest thing:
>
> /usr/share/foomatic/db/source/PPD/HP/mono_laser/ 
> HP_LaserJet_2100_Series.ppd.gz
>
> So my question is: if I copy "HP LaserJet P2015.gz" file from my Mac  
> to that directory on the Linux machine (and presumable change the  
> spaces to underscores), will that make it work? Using the printer  
> configuration tool on CentOS, I added an option for Sides and set it  
> to 2, but that didn't work (but of course I didn't have the this ppd  
> file then). Is there anything else I need to do for the CentOS  
> printer configuration to find that file as an option for the driver?
>
> Looking through that ppd file for lines containing duplex, I found:
> *DefaultHPOption_Duplexer: False
>
> Should I just change that to True and it will always print in  
> duplex? There are lots of other lines containing duplex (too many to  
> post), but if one of the other lines is the appropriate one to  
> change, I could obviously do that.
>

In case anyone else has to deal with this issue later . . .

Mac ppd file didn't work, but I figured out why I couldn't get new  
hplip to install. It complained about libusb missing but what it was  
really missing was the libusb-devel file. After doing "yum install  
libusb-devel" I was then able to get it working with the new ppd file  
it installed. I did have to change the above line to True for it to  
automatically duplex but everything appears to work fine now.

Dave