Double-sided printing problem with Oki B410d

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#1

I’m new to opensuse, recently migrated from ubuntu.
Just configured a new printer, an Oki B410d and have a problem with the automatic double-sided printing: it will only print with the “long-edge flip”, no matter if I mark the “short-edge” option. This is very annoying, since I have to print lots of booklets on horizontal A4 paper, and reverse pages are printed upside-down!
I’m using the “OKI B4000 / B400 / MB400 PCL” driver from Okidata web page.
Will appreciate any help. Thanks.

#2

Mate of mine had this
We set the printer up via CUPS web interface and it solved it
Enter this in firefox
http://localhost:631/

administration is
user = root
And root password

#3

Thanks, but that didn’t fix my problem.
Any ideas?

#4

I even though it was a faulty machine, but I tested it in XP and it worked fine.

#5

On 04/10/2011 04:06 PM, Gonzo91 wrote:
>
> I even though it was a faulty machine, but I tested it in XP and it
> worked fine.

Check the file /etc/cups/ppd/<printer_name>.ppd. I had to manually edit it to
get my printer to “tumble”. The lines in question were

*FoomaticRIPOptionSetting Duplex=DuplexNoTumble: " -dDuplex=true -dTum&&
ble=false"
*End
*FoomaticRIPOptionSetting Duplex=DuplexTumble: " -dDuplex=true -dTumbl&&
e=true"
*End

The default was set earlier in the file to DuplexNoTumble, which is overridden here.

#6

Problem solved. I changed to the pxlmono driver, updated ghostscript, and now it’s working!
Thanks a lot caf4926 and lwfinger for your answers!