Re: Issues with double-sided printing?

Steve D. Perkins wrote:
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> **NOTE** Please excuse me if this message is a duplicate, I originally
> sent it yesterday and it never posted to the mailing list. I suspect
> that it may be because I accidentally forgot to set my email client to
> use plain-text instead of HTML, but there could simply be lag issues
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> Hey everyone -
>
> I've found a strange issue that I was going to open a Bugzilla item for,
> but wanted to check around and try to determine the scope of the issue.
> I'm running AbiWord 2.2.8 on Windows 2000... when I try to print
> documents to a large Xerox DocuCentre printer which supports
> double-sided printing, the pages are printed using regular single-sided
> printing instead.
>
> AbiWord is the only application on my system that exhibits this
> behavior, all other apps print double-sided when this option is selected
> in the printer driver's dialog box. This being the case, I suspect that
> the issue is probably on AbiWord's side (at least in large part)...
> passing along the print job data to the driver in such a way that it
> can't print double-sided.
>
> However, I am curious as to whether this is an issue specific to the
> DocuCentre printer driver I'm using or if it's common to other
> printers. Are you able to print double-sided pages from AbiWord if your
> printer supports this?

There are quite a few printing bugs with the Windows port, so it most
likely is an AbiWord-only problem. With that said, is double-sided
printing the default configuration for the printer, or is it being set
in the print dialog after selecting File > Print? If it's the latter,
you may be running into Bug 3210 which has a potential workaround in
comment 34.
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Received on Mon Jul 25 22:09:04 2005