Greetings. I've got a brother HL-5250DN printer on my local network, and it is *currently* not doing duplex printing under Fedora 20.
I've seen discussions of a similar problem in various places. The responses to the problem seem to fall into several categories:
(1) Duplex printing must be *enabled* on the printer before it will print duplex.
(2) Some printers are not well-supported under linux. You should check the Open Printing database (or similar).
(3) Get the printer driver from Brother.
Regarding (1), the duplex option *is* enabled on the printer, and it *does* print in duplex from Windows and Mac systems (and others -- see below).
Regarding (2), the printer printed in duplex just fine through various versions of Fedora, up through Fedora 18 (the last version I had installed prior to Fedora 20). Furthermore, it prints duplex just fine from an Ubuntu 14.04 system that I have running in VirtualBox on my Fedora machine. In all cases the duplex printing capability happened without my having to expend any brain power at all on the issue: it "just worked".
Regarding (3), I've tried that, but it didn't appear to help.
So far as I can tell, my problems are pretty similar to those reported by other people. One possibly novel thing: I noticed, without paying close attention, that some of the recent updates to Fedora 20 have been CUPS-related. That motivated me to roll the dice and try duplex printing again. And shazam! It worked!
If that were the end of the story, I wouldn't bother to tell it. The printer once again does *not* print duplex. I'm assuming that the problem must have been fixed by one CUPS-related upgrade and broken again by a later one. Here are the candidates:
# rpm -qa --last | grep -i cups cups-filters-1.0.53-2.fc20.x86_64 Thu 15 May 2014 11:48:18 AM PDT cups-filters-libs-1.0.53-2.fc20.x86_64 Thu 15 May 2014 11:48:15 AM PDT bluez-cups-5.18-1.fc20.x86_64 Fri 02 May 2014 12:18:41 PM PDT cups-1.7.2-1.fc20.x86_64 Wed 30 Apr 2014 11:41:06 AM PDT cups-libs-1.7.2-1.fc20.x86_64 Wed 30 Apr 2014 11:40:45 AM PDT cups-filesystem-1.7.2-1.fc20.noarch Wed 30 Apr 2014 11:40:45 AM PDT python-cups-1.9.65-1.fc20.x86_64 Sat 15 Mar 2014 03:09:34 PM PDT gutenprint-cups-5.2.9-14.fc20.x86_64 Mon 23 Dec 2013 11:23:50 PM PST cups-pk-helper-0.2.5-2.fc20.x86_64 Mon 23 Dec 2013 11:08:33 PM PST
Unfortunately, as I said, I wasn't paying close attention to the timing of the not-work/work/not-work cycle, so I can't shed any more light on the problem. If you can, I'd love to hear from you.
BTW, the driver I'm using is:
Brother HL-5250DN Foomatic/Postscript
and it *does* have the duplex printing option enabled:
Double-sided printing: Long Edge (standard)
Thanks.
-- Mike
On 05/20/14 12:57, Michael Hannon wrote:
and it *does* have the duplex printing option enabled:
Double-sided printing: Long Edge (standard)
Sorry for the gratuitous trimming.... Just wanted to share my experience which probably doesn't fix your situation but may trigger others to think what may.....
I had much the opposite situation. I have an HP 6500 with duplex capability. It is configured in CUPS as "installed" and the default is set to " Double-Sided Printing: off". Yet every time I printed I would get double-sided print-outs. In checking the print options for each application I was using the Double-sided option was selected. In order to get single-sided, I always had to manually revert it within all of the applications.
Ultimately, I ran "hp-toolbox" (which isn't applicable to you) and set the default there.... After that, each application did pick up the default single sided. So, it seems, settings are held in multiple places and I'm not certain where all the places are and which location has priority.....
Anyway..... Just wondering, when you print from an application, if you checked to see what printer options are being used.
On 05/20/14 14:05, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 05/20/14 12:57, Michael Hannon wrote:
and it *does* have the duplex printing option enabled:
Double-sided printing: Long Edge (standard)Sorry for the gratuitous trimming.... Just wanted to share my experience which probably doesn't fix your situation but may trigger others to think what may.....
I had much the opposite situation. I have an HP 6500 with duplex capability. It is configured in CUPS as "installed" and the default is set to " Double-Sided Printing: off". Yet every time I printed I would get double-sided print-outs. In checking the print options for each application I was using the Double-sided option was selected. In order to get single-sided, I always had to manually revert it within all of the applications.
Ultimately, I ran "hp-toolbox" (which isn't applicable to you) and set the default there.... After that, each application did pick up the default single sided. So, it seems, settings are held in multiple places and I'm not certain where all the places are and which location has priority.....
Anyway..... Just wondering, when you print from an application, if you checked to see what printer options are being used.
FWIW, this got to me thinking and I found where the per-user options are set.....
~/.cups/lpoptions
Duplex=DuplexNoTumble is set for a printer where the default should be
Double-sided printing: Long Edge
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 09:57:20PM -0700, Michael Hannon wrote:
Greetings. I've got a brother HL-5250DN printer on my local network, and it is *currently* not doing duplex printing under Fedora 20.
One more data point, though its usefulness to the OP is suspect:
If your printer has been set up the old-fashioned manual way, I suppose it might be helpful to try the installer tool to see if anything improves. This appears to be the download page from Brother for the "driver install tool" for a 5250: http://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadend.aspx?c=us&lang=en&prod=hl...
| From: Michael Hannon jmhannon.ucdavis@gmail.com | Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 21:57:20 -0700
This thread is over a month old. I found it when thrashing around to solve my own problem: failure of duplex printing with Fedora 20 on a Brother HL-5150D (connected via USB).
Please look at this bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1035090
There is a work-around that works for me (see comment 9): sudo lpadmin -p PrinterName -o pdftops-renderer-default=gs
The real problem is a bug ip pdftops. See: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72312
Please sign up for bz 1035090 and whine :-) That may increase the priority for backporting the already-fixed pdftops.
| From: D. Hugh Redelmeier hugh@mimosa.com
| Please sign up for bz 1035090 and whine :-) | That may increase the priority for backporting the already-fixed | pdftops.
New alternative: try my COPR. I've assembled a version of poppler that seems to fix the problem. And be compatible with the rest of F20.
See http://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/hugh/poppler-fix-f20/
I'd love feedback.
Thanks, Hugh. I enabled the repo, as per your (untested) suggestion, did the yum update, and voila, I got duplex printing. This was success with only one document, and if the update is going to break other things, it hasn't had time to do that. But things look very good so far. Thanks again.
-- Mike
On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 12:11 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier hugh@mimosa.com wrote:
| From: D. Hugh Redelmeier hugh@mimosa.com
| Please sign up for bz 1035090 and whine :-) | That may increase the priority for backporting the already-fixed | pdftops.
New alternative: try my COPR. I've assembled a version of poppler that seems to fix the problem. And be compatible with the rest of F20.
See http://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/hugh/poppler-fix-f20/
I'd love feedback.
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Michael Hannon wrote:
Thanks, Hugh. I enabled the repo, as per your (untested) suggestion, did the yum update, and voila, I got duplex printing. This was success with only one document, and if the update is going to break other things, it hasn't had time to do that. But things look very good so far. Thanks again.
-- Mike
On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 12:11 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier hugh@mimosa.com wrote:
| From: D. Hugh Redelmeier hugh@mimosa.com
| Please sign up for bz 1035090 and whine :-) | That may increase the priority for backporting the already-fixed | pdftops.
New alternative: try my COPR. I've assembled a version of poppler that seems to fix the problem. And be compatible with the rest of F20.
See http://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/hugh/poppler-fix-f20/
I'd love feedback.
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Yes!! I had no idea what was causing this. All of my printers available at my work had stopped handling duplex.
I verified that this issue is fixed by the poppler-fix-f20, at least on one hp laser printer.
| From: D. Hugh Redelmeier hugh@mimosa.com
| See http://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/hugh/poppler-fix-f20/ | | I'd love feedback.
Thanks for the feedback.
We've noticed that we can no longer print envelopes. I wonder why.
The printer no longer stops with a blinking light, awaiting a blank envelope to be inserted in the second feed. When you do put one there, it doesn't print on it. I need to check if it is printing somewhere off the envelope.
More investigation is required. I'm not sure when I can get to this.
Does anyone else notice this problem? Is it a change for you?
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