Bug 2238458

Summary:	duplex printing always flips on the short edge
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora EPEL	Reporter:	fedrock <doarhop>
Component:	printer-driver-brlaser	Assignee:	Ondřej Budai <obudai>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Version:	epel8	CC:	droach282, obudai
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Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
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Description fedrock 2023-09-12 03:32:07 UTC

Description of problem:
Duplex printing on a DCP7065DN printer always flips on the short edge. This is a problem only with relatively recent versions of printer-driver-brlaser. Specifically, everything works fine with printer-driver-brlaser-6.2-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
Every update I have applied since then caused the problem.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 6.2.6-1.el8.x86_64


How reproducible: Easy


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use any printing application, such as lp and lpr, that allows specifying duplex printing
2. Specify flipping the page on the long edge (the standard with portrait mode).
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Actual results:


Expected results: Pages are flipped along the short edge (the standard with landscape mode).


Additional info:

Comment 1 Ondřej Budai 2023-10-09 20:38:47 UTC

Yeah, I can confirm what you wrote. I discovered that this is the commit that breaks the behavior: https://github.com/Owl-Maintain/brlaser/commit/4eed83316657ee356e610d31dd266dc29e7a6bb2

Sadly, if I revert the patch, I can only get flipping on the long edge (even when I select flip on the short edge). It seems to me that Tumble is always set to one value.

Do you want to create an issues on GitHub to get more people involved? I'm afraid I'm unable to fix this.

Comment 2 fedrock 2023-10-10 00:10:23 UTC

How do I "create an issues on GitHub"?

I thought that here was the place to file bug reports.
It is clearly possible for some variation of this code to work since printer-driver-brlaser-6.2-1.el8.x86_64.rpm works...

Comment 3 Dan Roach 2025-02-20 14:31:59 UTC

Greetings,

This appears to have been fixed upstream: https://github.com/Owl-Maintain/brlaser/releases/tag/v6.2.7

I've tested a manual build and install of 6.2.7 on Fedora 41, and can confirm it handles duplexing as expected.

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2025-02-24 12:12:36 UTC

FEDORA-EPEL-2025-5438d6693e (printer-driver-brlaser-6.2.7-1.el8) has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 8.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2025-5438d6693e

Comment 5 Ondřej Budai 2025-02-24 12:13:54 UTC

Thank you for testing, Dan! I submitted an update to 6.2.7 to all Fedora/RHEL branches: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/?packages=printer-driver-brlaser Karma is welcome!

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2025-02-25 01:23:25 UTC

FEDORA-EPEL-2025-5438d6693e has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 8 testing repository.

You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2025-5438d6693e

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2025-03-05 01:07:15 UTC

FEDORA-EPEL-2025-5438d6693e (printer-driver-brlaser-6.2.7-1.el8) has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 8 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.