Dear all,
we have installed a Xerox printer on a system running Solaris 10 10/08
using this command:

#lpadmin -p xerox_p -s localhost -v socket://IP  -m uri -A write -n /
usr/lib/lp/model/ppd/system
/foomatic/Xerox/xr_p4500.ppd -o banner=always -I postscript -u
allow:all

The printer is running very well except for printing duplex pages by
the lp command.
I tried to print with -o DuplexNoTumble or with -o sides=two-sided-
long-edge but without
success.

Does anybody know the correct option -o ???? to do duplex printing and/
or does one have
to modify the xr_p4500.ppd file?

THX, Rainer

Rainer Bl�s wrote:
> Dear all,
> we have installed a Xerox printer on a system running Solaris 10 10/08
> using this command:
> 
> #lpadmin -p xerox_p -s localhost -v socket://IP  -m uri -A write -n /
> usr/lib/lp/model/ppd/system
> /foomatic/Xerox/xr_p4500.ppd -o banner=always -I postscript -u
> allow:all
> 
> The printer is running very well except for printing duplex pages by
> the lp command.
> I tried to print with -o DuplexNoTumble or with -o sides=two-sided-
> long-edge but without
> success.
> 
> Does anybody know the correct option -o ???? to do duplex printing and/
> or does one have
> to modify the xr_p4500.ppd file?
> 
> THX, Rainer

Welcome to the nightmare that is Unix printing!  I have a Solaris 9 or 
10 box that actually asked me to pick my printer manufacturer from a 
list and then had me select the model.  It worked and is still working. 
  I suppose I'm lucky that I haven't tried to change anything!

It may be easier to move the file to a PC in order to print it!

In article <029b3642-cac7-4f17-9be9-e4deee46de7c@d21g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>,
Rainer Bl�s  <rainer.blaes@astrium.eads.net> wrote:
>The printer is running very well except for printing duplex pages by
>the lp command.
>I tried to print with -o DuplexNoTumble or with -o sides=two-sided-
>long-edge but without
>success.

-o Duplex=DuplexNoTumble

There's a lp invocation which will spew the PPD's supported options
but I can't remember it.

John
groenveld@acm.org

John D Groenveld wrote:
> In article <029b3642-cac7-4f17-9be9-e4deee46de7c@d21g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>,
> Rainer Bl�s  <rainer.blaes@astrium.eads.net> wrote:
>> The printer is running very well except for printing duplex pages by
>> the lp command.
>> I tried to print with -o DuplexNoTumble or with -o sides=two-sided-
>> long-edge but without
>> success.
> 
> -o Duplex=DuplexNoTumble
> 
> There's a lp invocation which will spew the PPD's supported options
> but I can't remember it.
> 
> John
> groenveld@acm.org


Try

#lpstat -p xerox -l 2

On Nov 3, 7:13=A0pm, solx <nos...@example.net> wrote:
> John D Groenveld wrote:
> > In article <029b3642-cac7-4f17-9be9-e4deee46d...@d21g2000yqn.googlegrou=
ps.com>,
> > Rainer Bl=E4s =A0<rainer.bl...@astrium.eads.net> wrote:
> >> The printer is running very well except for printing duplex pages by
> >> the lp command.
> >> I tried to print with -o DuplexNoTumble or with -o sides=3Dtwo-sided-
> >> long-edge but without
> >> success.


>
> > -o Duplex=3DDuplexNoTumble

Unfortunately this does NOT work.

>
> > There's a lp invocation which will spew the PPD's supported options
> > but I can't remember it.
>
> Try
>
> #lpstat -p xerox -l 2

It gives this output:
......
......
        lpsched-ppd-source-path=3D/usr/lib/lp/model/ppd/system/foomatic/
Xerox/xr_p 4500.ppd
        printer-model=3D"Xerox Phaser 4500 B
        printer-make-and-model=3D"Xerox Phaser 4500"
        printer-make=3D"Xerox"
        InstOptFeatureSet-default=3DB
        InstOptFeatureSet-supported=3DB,N,DT,DX
        InstOptLowerTrays-default=3DNone
        InstOptLowerTrays-supported=3DNone,OneExtraTray,TwoExtraTrays
        InstOptOutputBin-default=3DFalse
        InstOptOutputBin-supported=3DFalse,True
        InstOptHardDrive-default=3DFalse
        InstOptHardDrive-supported=3DFalse,True
        InstOptDuplex-default=3DFalse
        InstOptDuplex-supported=3DFalse,True
        Invokesetpagedevice-default=3DTrue
        Invokesetpagedevice-supported=3DFalse,True
        JobType-default=3DNormal
        JobType-supported=3DNormal,Secure,Proof,Saved
        media-default=3DLetter
        media-
supported=3DLetter,Legal,Executive,Statement,Folio,A4,A5,A6,ISOB5,B5
=20
JIS,IndexCard,EnvCom10,EnvMonarch,EnvDL,EnvC5,EnvB5,Custom
        MediaType-default=3DPlain
        MediaType-
supported=3DPlain,Letterhead,Transparency,Labels,ColoredPaper,Ca
rdStock,Envelope,Special
        lpsched-disable-reason=3Dnew printer
        lpsched-disable-date=3DTue Nov  3 15:03:53 CET 2009
        lpsched-reject-reason=3Dnew destination
        lpsched-reject-date=3DTue Nov  3 15:04:00 CET 2009
        printer-current-time=3DWed Nov  4 09:51:49 CET 2009
        printer-up-time=3D1257324709
        printer-state=3D3
        printer-is-accepting-jobs
        printer-is-processing-jobs
        printer-state-reasons=3Dnone
        multiple-document-jobs-supported
        multiple-document-handling-supported=3Dseperate-documents-
colated-copies
        pdl-override-supported=3Dnot-attempted
        job-priority-supported=3D40
        job-priority-default=3D20
        copies-supported=3D1-65535
        copies-default=3D1
        page-ranges-supported
        number-up-supported=3D1
        number-up-default=3D1
        job-hold-until-supported=3Dno-hold,indefinite
        job-hold-until-default=3Dno-hold
        document-format-default=3Dapplication/octet-stream

But I can't find here which option name for duplex printing.

Rainer

Rainer Bl�s wrote:

>         InstOptDuplex-default=False
>         InstOptDuplex-supported=False,True


OK, I'm not an expert, but doesn't this mean it's turned off as a 
feature or option?

I would try finding where this is set (ppd?), the set them both to "True"

Paul

In article <9fc71bfa-bdb6-4b38-b372-fddcd76ce9d6@m26g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>,
Rainer Bl�s  <rainer.blaes@astrium.eads.net> wrote:
>> > -o Duplex=DuplexNoTumble
>
>Unfortunately this does NOT work.

Try using one of the other bundled PPDs:
/usr/share/ppd/SUNWfoomatic/Xerox/Xerox-Phaser_4500N-Postscript.ppd.gz

And also try setting that option as the printer default with lpadmin.

John
groenvld@acm.org