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manual duplex printing with hp laserjet m1522n

Asked by Danilio

I have installed HPLIP-3.14.3 for my HP LaserJet M1522n. I have no duplex page print hardware, this printer doesn't have one. I usually (with windows xp) print both side manually because windows has a duplex manual driver for this printer. The printer was printing the back pages first taking the paper fron the default tray, then the pages were loaded manually in the manual and with the OK botton, the printer was printing the first pages loading from the manual tray.

With Ubuntu 12.1 I cannot print anymore in this way. The Basic tab of the print setting of the HP device manager has a duplex option (print on both sides of the page) and it seems I could specify the edge (long or short), but it doesn't do any good. I only get single side printing.

I am not a Linux expert, so please give me the full details how to fix this problem step by step as a amateur.

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Best Sanjay Kumar (sanjay-kumar14) said : 		#1

Hello Danalio,

We are sorry to inform that HPLIP does not support manual duplex. There is a bug in the toolbox because of which duplex options are shown in the UI even if Printer does not support Auto Duplex. However you print from any application like evince, gedit etc. you will not see duplex options in the UI. We will fix this bug in the future version of HPLIP.

Thanks,
Sanjay

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Danilio (paccani-danilio) said : 		#2

I found a solution for manually print on both sides. First print the even pages flagging the reverse order (the last even page is the last one printed). Then take the printed even pages as they are rotate the short edge of 180 degree and insert them in the manual tray . Or better insert the pages in the manual tray from the short side that is facing you and not the short side side facing the output tray. Pay attention that the blank pages are on top. Finally print the odd pages.

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Danilio (paccani-danilio) said : 		#3

Thanks Sanjay Kumar, that solved my question.