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From: Winston <wbe@UBEBLOCK.psr.com.invalid>
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Subject: Re: unsuccessfully install of printer brother hl-l2360dw
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2024 22:17:09 -0500
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Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> writes:
> But there's still one thing that I cannot do
> that is to print on two sides of the paper using the flip on long edge
> option.  I'm printing on both sides just fine, but no matter what I do
> it always comes out with flip on short edge.  I wonder if anyone knows
> anything I could do.  My desire nearly 100% of the times is to print
> two-sided with flip-on-long-edge, so if I could somehow set the printer
> to always do this, that'd be right nearly 100%.

I'm mostly a spectator to this thread with no actual knowledge about the
issue, but in perusing your previous article, these stood out:

> *cupsBackSide: "Rotated"

> *OpenUI *Duplex/2-Sided Printing: PickOne
> *OrderDependency: 10 AnySetup *Duplex
> *DefaultDuplex: None
> *Duplex None/Off (1-Sided): "<</Duplex false>>setpagedevice"
> *Duplex DuplexNoTumble/Long-Edge (Portrait): "<</Duplex true/Tumble false>>setpagedevice"
> *Duplex DuplexTumble/Short-Edge (Landscape): "<</Duplex true/Tumble true>>setpagedevice"
> *CloseUI: *Duplex

Some full-duplex printers print on both sides of the page, same paper
edge "up" for both sides (i.e., like pages in a book), when simply sent
consecutive pages of text as if they were individual pages.
 -WBE