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BigSack
Asked: 2012-08-10 04:39:32 +0800 CST

Printer Manual Duplex Emulation?

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My printer have Emulated Duplex Mode under Windows 7. In which it says " Turn all Papers DownSide " . But my Printer Driver in Ubuntu doesn't support long edge and short edge Duplex Emulation.

Its a Duplex Emulation, not a real Duplex Machines. It ask for Turning Paper in Reverse Order when printing.

I need similar thing for linux to save some paper. How can this be done.

Note Printing Odd and Even Pages causes problem in Case of Multiple Page per Sheet.

Printer Samsung SCX3200 Series ( SCX 3201g )

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  1. Best Answer

    I had the exact same problem with my HP Photosmart C3180. You might want to try installing gnome-manual-duplex (assuming you are under the Gnome desktop). It is not in the repositories, but there is a .deb package there.

    See also the presentation here.

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  2. Check this virtual printer driver:

    https://github.com/dentys03/manual_duplex_linux

    It installs a virtual printer which will print odd pages, display a window with instructions in which you click "proceed" after you flip the finished odd pages.

    Issues with multiple pages per sheet can be solved by printing multiple pages per sheet to a file, then printing with the multiplexer.

    This should be the simplest way and it's only dependency is your phisical printer.

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