Re: unsuccessfully install of printer brother hl-l2360dw

Winston <wbe@UBEBLOCK.psr.com.invalid> writes:

Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> writes:

But there's still one thing that I cannot do
that is to print on two sides of the paper using the flip on long edge
option.  I'm printing on both sides just fine, but no matter what I do
it always comes out with flip on short edge.  I wonder if anyone knows
anything I could do.  My desire nearly 100% of the times is to print
two-sided with flip-on-long-edge, so if I could somehow set the printer
to always do this, that'd be right nearly 100%.

>
I'm mostly a spectator to this thread with no actual knowledge about the
issue, but in perusing your previous article, these stood out:
>

*cupsBackSide: "Rotated"

>

*OpenUI *Duplex/2-Sided Printing: PickOne
*OrderDependency: 10 AnySetup *Duplex
*DefaultDuplex: None
*Duplex None/Off (1-Sided): "<</Duplex false>>setpagedevice"
*Duplex DuplexNoTumble/Long-Edge (Portrait): "<</Duplex true/Tumble false>>setpagedevice"
*Duplex DuplexTumble/Short-Edge (Landscape): "<</Duplex true/Tumble true>>setpagedevice"
*CloseUI: *Duplex

I don't really know what these lines are saying.  It looks to me like a
key-value table, but that's an assumption I'm making.  I have no idea
what values are available---I have no made sense of this syntax.

Some full-duplex printers print on both sides of the page, same paper
edge "up" for both sides (i.e., like pages in a book), when simply sent
consecutive pages of text as if they were individual pages.

Over here so far this printer is printing two-side-short-edge on any two
pages I send to the printer.  (Except for the printer settings I just
printed out after learning about the web interface of the printer---a
URL that appeared in the ipptool(1) that John Groenveld mentioned.  It
did print 3 pages of settings and it was two-sided-long-edge.)  Either I
tell it to do one-sided or it does long-edge.  So even if I had the
patience to always print two and two pages---if I understood you
correctly---, I don't think I'd get the same effect. 

I've been living with two-sided-short-edge; it's not the end of the
world.  I print mostly to read away from my desk.  Once upon a time I
printed my master's and doctorate dissertation, but I have no other
dissertation planned to be printed any time soon.