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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: terminal only for two weeks
Date: 17 Feb 2025 22:18:20 -0000
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Salvador Mirzo  <smirzo@example.com> wrote:
>Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> writes:
>
>> Sounds like an incorrect PPD, which is where the various options come
>> from.
>> I have a HL220dw and CUPS supports both simplex and duplex printing,
>> selectable at the time I print.
>
>Would you be so kind to share your PPD?  I could perhaps get more clues
>seeing one PPD file that really works.  I have suspected mine could be
>faulty, but I know so little about PPDs and PostScript.  My greatest
>insight so far is that the PPD file houses small PostScript snippets
>that PostScript-generating software that use to make the printer do one
>thing or another.  Here's my full PPD in use. FWIW:
>
>*PPD-Adobe: "4.3"
>*%%%% PPD file for HL-L2360D series with CUPS.
>*%%%% Created by the CUPS PPD Compiler CUPS v2.4.10.

This appears to be a PPD file for a different printer.  See if CUPS has
available one for the actual printer you are using.
--scott

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