Bug 166688 - Cannot select duplex -> "Not Capable" anymore
Summary: Cannot select duplex -> "Not Capable" anymore
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: foomatic
Version: 5
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Tim Waugh
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-08-24 17:19 UTC by Orion Poplawski
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: FC6
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2006-12-13 15:43:07 UTC
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Description Orion Poplawski 2005-08-24 17:19:51 UTC 
Description of problem:
We have a HP LaserJet 5M.  The postscript driver Duplex option must be set to
"Not Capable" for it work.  This works in fc3 but no longer is an option in fc4.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
system-config-printer-0.6.116.1.4-1
Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2005-09-05 14:53:35 UTC 
What goes wrong when "Double-Sided Printing" is set to "Off"?
Comment 2 Orion Poplawski 2005-09-12 15:20:38 UTC 
Printer outputs:

ERROR: configurationerror
OFFENDING COMMAND: setpagedevice

Basically, it can't handle *any* setpagedevice command with duplex options. 
"Not Capable" would make it so that no duplex option command was sent.
Comment 3 Orion Poplawski 2006-01-18 21:14:52 UTC 
Recent foomatic update broke this again for me.  Can we plese fix this?  Here's
a diff of the bad and good .ppd file:

166c166
< *DefaultDuplex: None
---
> *DefaultDuplex: Notcapable
178a179,180
> *Duplex Notcapable/Not capable: "%% FoomaticRIPOptionSetting: Duplex=Notcapable"
> *FoomaticRIPOptionSetting Duplex=Notcapable: ""
Comment 4 Orion Poplawski 2006-03-31 23:55:23 UTC 
Still in FC5, though the PPD format has changed.  Now adding:

*Duplex Notcapable/Not capable: ""
*End

Is needed as well as setting DefaultDuplex: Notcapable.
Comment 5 Tim Waugh 2006-12-13 15:43:07 UTC 
In FC6 the relevant PPD has an 'InstallableOptions' section including a
duplex-installed option, and system-config-printer can configure this to 'not
installed'.
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