lee@sq.sq.com (Liam R. E. Quin) (03/27/91)
I said that we had a customer who needed to do duplex printing on an HP IID
printer, and they had a PostScript cartridge.
I have received many very helpful replies, and I'd particularly like to
thank representatives from Adobe and HP.
The following methods have been suggested, and we've passed them on to out
customer.
* Use the front panel controls (!)
* The back page of the Pacific cartridge manual contains instructions...
For the Adobe cartridge:
=======================
TRUE setduplexmode
or
statusdict begin true setduplexmode end
N K Krishnan (krishnan@iag.hp.com) sent the following:
the following lasts
through the end of the job. there are primitives to set it in
the persistent state as well.
%!
%
% tumble duplex setduplexer -
%
% boolean tumble - sets horizontal duplex
% boolean duplex - sets duplex mode
%
/setduplexer
{
statusdict /setduplexmode known
{ statusdict begin setduplexmode end } { pop } ifelse
statusdict /settumble known
{ statusdict begin settumble end } { pop } ifelse
} def
For the Pacific Page cartridge:
==============================
true setduplex
It was also noted that the Adobe PPD file is available from their mail server:
Mail -s 'help' ps-file-server@adobe.com < /dev/null
works for me...
Thanks to:
Sherri Nichols at Adobe (snichols@adobe.com)
Kevin Brown at Hewlett Packard (brown@hpbsm15.boi.hp.com)
Joe Garvey (sumax!quick!johnny5!garvey)
N K Krishnan (krishnan@iag.hp.com)
and several others.
Lee
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