From: smirzo@example.com   
      
   Salvador Mirzo  writes:   
      
   > Jerry Peters  writes:   
   >   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   > Awesome news.  I've tried hacking my PPD a file a bit, but   
   > unsuccessfully.  I've reported my attempts to   
   >   
   >   comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc.   
   >   
   > Would you be so kind to share your PPD?  I could perhaps get more clues   
   > seeing one PPD file that really works.  I have suspected mine could be   
   > faulty, but I know so little about PPDs and PostScript.  My greatest   
   > insight so far is that the PPD file houses small PostScript snippets   
   > that PostScript-generating software that use to make the printer do one   
   > thing or another.  Here's my full PPD in use. FWIW:   
   >   
   > *PPD-Adobe: "4.3"   
      
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   Looks like something is line-wrapping my long lines.  I don't think   
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   I've no idea.   
      
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