302313 - Printing - duplex and multiple copies don't work together.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)

Description

[Paul Townsend]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050720
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050720

file -> print - if you specify more than one copy, duplexing won't work.
Instead you get the number of copies specified each on one side of a sheet.

I note that mozilla inserts "1 dict dup /NumCopies N put setpagedevice" 
between the "%%BeginPageSetup" and "%%EndPageSetup".  I think this overrides
any preceding page controls as far as duplex or copycount specification are
concerned.  FWIW, the printer that I'm using can print either simplex or
duplex via a command line option - the default is simplex.  The default
`mozila' command specification includes the "duplex" option.

By playing with a page the I "printed" to a file, I found that, at least
for our printers, a "<< /NumCopies N >> setpagedevice" placed anywhere
before the first "%%BeginPageSetup" produce multiple copies of duplexed
sheets.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.file -> print
2.click on "Pages" and set the number of copies
3.click on "Print"

Actual Results:  
The specified number of copies printed but all just on one side of each sheet.

Expected Results:  
It should have printed N copies of the specified page but on BOTH sides of the
paper.

A possible workaround would be to "print" the page to a file and either

(1) use the `lpr' command with the necessary options to print duplexed
    multiple copies or

(2) directly edit the file and add near the top

    << /Duplex true /Tumble false >> setpagedevice
    << /NumCopies N >> setpagedevice

Comment 1

[Paul Townsend]

Worked with seamonkey-1.0.4.