Magicfilter 2.X and duplex printing
O. Hartmann
ohartman at mail.uni-mainz.de
Sat Feb 12 14:05:01 GMT 2005
Hello.
Using magicfilter 2.3.b out of the ports runs me into a problem printing
duplex on a duplex
capable PS printer.
In magicfilter 1.X it was simple inserting an intermediate conversion
step with "psset" for
preparing data stream being print duplex and/or selecting a different
tray for certain paper
qualities, colours or for transparency.
In magicfilter 2.3 I miss such a facility or don't know how to implement
such a conversion intermediate step
in M4 (I do not program M4).
A solution would be to save a file/document, convert to PS, using psset
with the appropriate Duplex/Tray
selectors and the print this out to the standard printing queue. But
this isn't very convenient when printing
from applications like Mozilla or other toolsets in which I have to give
a printqueue. I feel more flexible selecting
a specific queue for my own purposes than doinf many conversion steps
outside an application.
Does anyone solved such a problem?
magicfilter 1.X was a very powerful solution for managin many
printqueues on a printserver especially the
very nice facilities of using many intermediate conversion steps of
files beeing print were useful. I miss this
simple way in magicfilter 2.3!
Thnaks for your help,
Oliver
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