From: jerry@example.invalid   
      
   Salvador Mirzo  wrote:   
   > Ivan Shmakov  writes:   
   >   
   >>>>>>> On 2025-01-16, Salvador Mirzo wrote:   
   >>   
   >>  > I suspect I imagine wrong how things actually work.  I thought   
   >>  > perhaps there would be a command line such as ``lpr --pages 7-14''.   
   >>   
   >>       As has already been pointed in this thread, CUPS, a fairly   
   >>       common choice for a printer spooler in GNU/Linux systems,   
   >>       provides lp(1) command that does have just such an option.   
   >   
   > Thanks for the information.  It turns out I'm not being able to print   
   > two-sided-long-edge with CUPS and my Brother HL-L2360DW.  I resorted to   
   > using /etc/printcap and lpd's lpr (not CUPS's lpr) because I can then   
   > set my printer to always do two-sided-long-edge, which is nearly 100% of   
   > the way I print.   
      
   Sounds like an incorrect PPD, which is where the various options come   
   from.   
   I have a HL220dw and CUPS supports both simplex and duplex printing,   
   selectable at the time I print.   
      
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