Re: [libreoffice-users] Printer Dialogs

I use CUPS-PDF for non-LO PDF printing.  Most of my printers have CUPS 
based drivers installed as their Linux default.

As for dialogs working properly, well duplexing works on an HP laser, 
while it will not on an Epson inkjet, within LO.

I use Linux mostly, but I have to compared side by side the dialogs 
between my Linux desktop and my Vista Laptop.

It could be LO, or it could be your flavor of Linux and its repository 
drivers.  You never know unless you take the same printers with 
different version of Linux on the same computer.  Or take LO on Linux vs 
LO on Windows.  If it works for one system and not the other, then it is 
not LO.  If the same issue is across OSs, then it is LO.

On 04/19/2012 03:44 AM, Walther Koehler wrote:
> Hallo,
>
> I didnt follow the thread up to now.
> Do you use GNULinux CUPS?
>
> no: drop the rest
> yes: In that case its probably a problem of the .ppd and could  be solved by
> modifying this filet or getting a better one from turboprint.com or a
> gutenprint driver will do it. Have you switched off CUPS?
> in my case I could (troubles with a Brother) I could solve the probelm
> perfectly.
>
> Walther
>
>
> Am Donnerstag, 19. April 2012 schrieb Malcolm Moore:
> > Incidentally ( or not ) LO gets it right in Windows
> >
> >
> > M
> >    _____
> >
> > From: mal [mailto:malcolm@interele.demon.co.uk]
> > To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> > Sent: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:51:38 +0100
> > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Printer Dialogs
> >
> > On 15/04/12 19:42, Cor Nouws wrote:
> >    >  mal wrote (12-04-12 20:05)
> >    >
> >    >>  On 11/04/12 22:10, Cor Nouws wrote:
> >    >>>  Where in LibreOffice do you get this?
> >    >>
> >    >>  I just go to print a document.
> >    >>  File / Print
> >    >>  General /Properties
> >    >>  The paper tray drop down does not include the bypass tray
> >    >>  Also if you go to Device to select the paper in the options
> >    >>  there are only 13 paper types listed. This printer has 21 types
> >    >>  ( which show up in other applications )
> >    >>
> >    >>  Is that what you meant ?
> >    >
> >    >  Yes, thanks. (it could have been that you referred to information on
> >    >  the page style, although that is not so logic.)
> >    >
> >    >  I guess LibreOffice gets its information via the printer driver. And
> >    >  for me that's a terra incognita.
> >    >  Could it be that the bypass is automatically selected once you open
> >    >  it, or fill it?
> >    >  I think that the paper types are not relevant here. That are sort of
> >    >  definitions, referring in the end simply to the existing trays.
> >    >
> >    >  Regards,
> >
> >    Since we lease the printers I have spoken to both the engineers and the
> >    training department as I was
> >    hoping they could be set that way but these printers needs to be told to
> >    use the bypass - it doesn't
> >    select it automatically ( like small HP printers which  if you put
> >    something in the bypass it will take it
> >    from there preferentially. )
> >
> >    The paper types don't just refer to the tray to take the paper from.
> >    They also tell the printer how fast
> >    to feed the paper through the machine. For example thick3 is used for
> >    t-shirt printing paper and that
> >    has to go through really slowly otherwise the toner doesn't stick.
> >
> >    We have a really nasty work around for the t-shirt paper. That is, we
> >    put it in tray 3 and set that tray to
> >    thick1 ( which LO does show ) which slows the paper a bit. Then we also
> >    select 1200 dpi instead of
> >    the normal 600 which slows it even more and it works. However this does
> >    use up a tray and you can
> >    also only get away which doing 2 or 3 pages then you have to put a blank
> >    sheet through from a normal
> >    tray to clean the rollers.
> >
> >    best wishes
> >
> >    M
> >
> >
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