[libreoffice-users] Re: duplex printing - two printers - only one will duplex

On 04/02/2012 10:56 AM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote:
> I am wondering about the Duplexing issues with LO.
>
> I still am running 3.4.5 64-bit DEBs install on Ubuntu. [plus a Vista 
> laptop].
>
> I have two printers that have a duplexer as part of the printer.
>
> Epson Artisan 810 inkjet.
> HP Laserjet 2300dn.
>
> I have had the Epson since 3.3.2 or 3.3.3 came out.  I never could get 
> it to print out a duplex document [i.e. print on both sides of the 
> sheet].  I always has to print/export to a PDF file and use the PDF 
> viewer to print the document with the duplex option.
>
> Today, I just setup a HP Laserjet 2300dn, and I just printed a document 
> using its duplex option.  It worked.
>
> So here is my question:
> Does anyone know why LO will not print out a two sided document using 
> the Epson Artisan 810 inkjet printer, but it will print the same 
> document out duplexed [double sided] with the HP Laserjet 2300dn?

It's nothing to do with LO, it's the printer driver.

I have never had problems printing duplex on my Epson Workforce 635...
until I updated one of my machines to Ubuntu 12.04. This was driving me
nuts as my other systems all print to the printer (it's networked) just
fine.

The problem is that Ubuntu; in their effort to 'dumb down' the system,
automatically installs the 'new & improved' ESCPR driver(s). For some
reason the ESCPR drivers do not include two-sided (duplex) printing.

I finally compared drivers in the other machines & found that I had
previously installed the full packaged driver from Avasys/Epson:
epson-inkjet-printer-workforce-635-nx625-series_1.0.1-1lsb3.2_i386.deb
or
epson-inkjet-printer-workforce-635-nx625-series_1.0.1-1lsb3.2_amd64.deb
[64bit]

vs
epson-inkjet-printer-escpr_1.1.2-1lsb3.2_i386.deb
or
epson-inkjet-printer-escpr_1.2.0-1lsb3.2_i386.deb

I'd recommend that you go to:
<http://avasys.jp/eng/linux_driver/download/lsb/epson-inkjet/escp/>
and download the full driver for your printer:

<http://linux.avasys.jp/drivers/lsb/epson-inkjet/stable/debian/dists/lsb3.2/main/binary-i386/epson-inkjet-printer-stylus-photo-px810fw-series_1.0.0-1lsb3.2_i386.deb>
or
<http://linux.avasys.jp/drivers/lsb/epson-inkjet/stable/debian/dists/lsb3.2/main/binary-amd64/epson-inkjet-printer-stylus-photo-px810fw-series_1.0.0-1lsb3.2_amd64.deb>

Install & select that driver in your Print setup. Now see if you can
select and print two-sided/duplex.

I'll try to remember to file a bug report at
 <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr/>
and see if I can get Till Kamppeter to take a look at it.

I'm not snipping the following as this is in response to an old post, so
I'll leave in place for archive purposes.

> It seems weird that duplexing will not work for one printer but it will 
> for the other.
>
> If I want to print out a color document, two-sided, I have to 
> print/export it to a PDF file and then print out the PDF file using the 
> duplex option for the Epson printer.  LO's print manager [?] will not 
> print the document 2-sided to the Epson printer, even though it shows up 
> as one of the print options.  But when printing to the "new" HP Laserjet 
> 2300dn printer, I click on the duplex option and it works fine.
>
> So any clues what is needed to get the Epson inkjet printer to print out 
> a duplex sheet [a tri-fold brochure] when I go through the printer menu 
> system and select the duplex option over the default one-sided printing?



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