From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 24 3:38:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.liwing.de (mail.liwing.de [213.70.188.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08B6137B416 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 03:38:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 34132 invoked from network); 24 Apr 2002 10:51:11 -0000 Received: from stingray.liwing.de (HELO liwing.de) ([213.70.188.164]) (envelope-sender ) by mail.liwing.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 24 Apr 2002 10:51:11 -0000 Message-ID: <3CC68A96.84CFDF71@liwing.de> Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 12:36:06 +0200 From: Jens Rehsack Organization: LiWing IT-Services X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fook Sheng Chan Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: duplex printing References: <20020424101820.35005.qmail@web13605.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Fook Sheng Chan wrote: > > Hi > > i bought a Xerox DocuPrint P8ex, which is not capable > to duplex printing. I am wondering if it is possible > to control the printing process so that i will print > odd pages first, and then even pages. AFAIK it's possible to use ghostscript as printer driver. I have a duplex-capable postscript printer, so I do not know how. But there should be many descriptions how to use f.e. HP-Deskjet printers, ... You could modify the parameters of ghostscript in the way you need it, and you have the odd/even-separately printer. I do not know how you want to tell your printer to wait printing the even pages. IMHO it's easier to check your text processor (I do not know which office in which OS you use). I assume every text processor is able to print odd/even pages separately - and if you use some options, it going perfect... > This is so that I can use the reverse side of the > printed odd pages to print the even pages, so to > achieve duplex :). > > many thanks, > > fook sheng > > __________________________________________________ Kind regards Jens -- L i W W W i Jens Rehsack L W W W L i W W W W i nnn gggg LiWing IT-Services L i W W W W i n n g g LLLL i W W i n n g g Friesenstraße 2 gggg 06112 Halle g g g Tel.: +49 - 3 45 - 5 17 05 91 ggg e-Mail: Fax: +49 - 3 45 - 5 17 05 92 http://www.liwing.de/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message