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On 01/25/13 01:33, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>I haven't printed anything in a long time, but: |
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>CUPS drivers make all the difference. I used to pretty much get |
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>pathetic results using whatever was TheOfficialDriverOfTheDay for a |
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>given printer, and would get amazingly successful results using good |
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>old vanilla postscript or Generic PCL5/6 drivers. Go figure. |
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>There was a time the company went through just about every printer |
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>manufacturer in the business in 6 months trying to find a printer that |
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>actually worked (for sane values of work). In each case the official |
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>CUPS driver simply would not offer double-sided or shrink 2 pages onto 1 |
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>mode for *ANY* model. Postscript and generic PCL always worked every |
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>single time. |
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>/me baffled |
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>Alan McKinnon |
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>alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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I couldn't agree more. I think all those Linux programs have problem printing if one tries to print few pages in landscape mode on a single sheet of pager. |
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For me this command line did the job: |
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lpr -o media=Letter -o landscape -o number-up=4 -o number-up-layout=btlr filename |
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Joseph |
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