Re: [libreoffice-users] uncontrolled printing on HP Officejet Pro L7780

thanks. It got worse now... the new version of LO crashes on loading, looks
like I'm going to go clean everything up, and then maybe go back to a prior
version, so in the process, I should be creating new config files as well.

*Rogier Fentener van Vlissingen <http://viz.me/vliscony/t/7>*
*About Me <http://about.me/vliscony>*

On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 8:03 AM, Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster <
webmaster@krackedpress.com> wrote:

> On 12/28/2014 07:45 AM, libreoffice-ml.mbourne@spamgourmet.com wrote:
>
> > Rogier F. van Vlissingen wrote:
> >
> > > Most of the time when printing from LO, I get multiple copies, and I have
> > > to manually abort printing.
> > >
> > > At one point I thought it might be a printer problem, but it does not
> > > happen when I print from Adobe Reader or other applications, only from LO
> > >
> > > Does anyone have any insight???
> >
> > All I can think is to check that the number of copies is set to 1 when
> > printing. That may sound obvious, but there are two places it can be set,
> > which might catch you out. After going to File > Print, click the General
> > tab and select the required printer. Then:
> > 1. Make sure "Number of copies" on the dialog itself is set to "1".
> > 2. Click "Properties...". This brings up the printer-specific properties,
> > where there is also usually an option to set a number of copies (check all
> > the tabs - it varies by printer).
> > Set any other options as needed, and click OK to print as usual.
> >
> > These two settings operate separately... In the past, I've ended up with
> > 9 copies instead of 3, when I set LibreOffice to print 3 copies and set the
> > printer properties to print 3 copies (thinking changing the option in
> > LibreOffice should have updated that option for the printer). It turns out
> > that makes LibreOffice send 3 copies to the printer, which then prints
> > those 3 copies 3 times!
> >
> > Mark.
> I wonder if you have a glitch in your config file[s] that define printing
> with LibreOffice.  I do not remember the document location, but if you
> close LO and save the config file[s] location to a new name, then open LO
> again, LO will build a new set of configuration data.
>
> I had this issue a few years where LO was stuck on printing pages as if I
> set it to print 4 pages per sheet and then defined it so only one quarter
> of the page is printed and the rest of the sheet is left blank.  I could
> not get the settings to take hold so it would print properly.  When I had
> LO recreate a fresh configuration the problem was fixed.
>
> To be honest, I have had this happen a few times, but not in the past year
> or so.  This method was the easiest way for me to fix the printer
> issue/glitch that happened.  Also, LO was not the only package that has
> done this, but at least I did not have to remove and reinstall the whole
> package to get the printer problems fixed.
>
>
>
>
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