[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#508275: Option to always force even number of pages output per document

[Roger Leigh]

On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 03:38:33PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> When printing a large number of documents and wanting to manually
> duplex the output, it would be useful if lp/cups could help me by
> always printing an even number of pages for each document, i.e.
> printing an empty page after each document with an odd number of
> pages.

I agree this would be useful.  I do, however, have a simple
workaround:

Print the even pages first, then the odd pages.  This way,
you won't have any printed pages left in the paper tray
whether or not you have an odd or even number of pages in the
job, and it will likely (printer-dependent) have all the
pages in the correct orientation ready to staple/bind.


Regards,
Roger



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