From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 30 0:42:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1F18C37B4AB for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 00:41:56 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 92784 invoked by uid 100); 30 Jan 2001 08:41:55 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14966.32339.69484.579686@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 02:41:55 -0600 (CST) To: Odhiambo Washington Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Paper version of the handbook In-Reply-To: <20010130110219.C564@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> References: <99557382@toto.iv> <14966.15175.648493.198122@guru.mired.org> <20010130110219.C564@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Odhiambo Washington types: > * Mike Meyer [20010130 06:57]: writing on the subject 'Re: Paper version of the handbook' > > Mike> Which is why I just bought a duplexer for my printer. Not that I want > Mike> to print the handbook, but so blasted much software and hardware is > Mike> coming with documentation as PDF on CD-ROM that I want printed copies > Mike> of. Thousands of pages over the last year. > You just mentioned something new to me and I was wondering if you could > enlighten me on what this 'duplexer' does for a printer - how is it used? A printer that has "duplex" capabilities can print on both sides of the paper. The "duplexer" proper is extra paper-handling mechanism that will take a page just printed on, turn it over, and send it back through the print mechanism to get the next page printed on the back side. High-dollar business printers are liable to have that capability built in; mid-level office printers - like my LaserJet 5m - have an optional external module that does this. It sits in one of the paper exit paths to turn the paper around. It's kind of cute watching the page pop up in the back and then go back down for the second pass. Obviously, you use a duplexer to make two-sided printouts. This cuts down on paper use - sufficiently so that when I was at DEC's WSE group, we configured all the printers to duplex by default - and means those thick documents I mentioned go into much binders of half the width. You enable duplexing by settings on the front panel - duplex on or off, and if on, whether you flip along the long edge, like a book, or short edge, like a clipboard - or in software. CUPS has options in the printer config for laserjets for this. Enscript has an option to do this. ApplixWords (part of Applixware Office) will print duplex once you've told it that a particular print queue is a printer with a duplexer. Personally, I'm going to set it on the front panel to duplex by default, and then override it from the software for those cases where I have to have single-sided copy. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message