Printing: wrong number of copies (N square copies)
I just upgraded to 18.04LTS, I print over a network printer using CUPS.
Since my upgrade, when printing N copies of a PDF (through Okular or Evince), I get N^2 copies printed. However, when I use a direct call to CUPS: lp -d my-printer -n 5 example.pdf I get the right number of copies (5 in this example).
I guess the applications are simply calling N times N copies.
Moreover, the printing options (stapling, etc.) are absent from the Options panel, and I need to tune them through the general Setting panel of Ubuntu.
What is the communication channel between applications and CUPS? How can I configure my printing "pipeline" so that it directly calls something like the lp cmmand?
Thanks for your help!
Note: this is not the same situation as https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/265538/cups-prints-n%C2%B2-as-many-copies-as-i-want since in their case, the lp command was giving also the wrong number of copies.
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I just upgraded to 18.04LTS, I print over a network printer using CUPS.
Since my upgrade, when printing N copies of a PDF (through Okular or Evince), I get N^2 copies printed. However, when I use a direct call to CUPS: lp -d my-printer -n 5 example.pdf I get the right number of copies (5 in this example).
I guess the applications are simply calling N times N copies.
Moreover, the printing options (stapling, etc.) are absent from the Options panel, and I need to tune them through the general Setting panel of Ubuntu.
What is the communication channel between applications and CUPS? How can I configure my printing "pipeline" so that it directly calls something like the lp cmmand?
Thanks for your help!
Note: this is not the same situation as https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/265538/cups-prints-n%C2%B2-as-many-copies-as-i-want since in their case, the lp command was giving also the wrong number of copies.
printing cups-lpd
asked Feb 1 at 14:24
ClovisClovis
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I just upgraded to 18.04LTS, I print over a network printer using CUPS.
Since my upgrade, when printing N copies of a PDF (through Okular or Evince), I get N^2 copies printed. However, when I use a direct call to CUPS: lp -d my-printer -n 5 example.pdf I get the right number of copies (5 in this example).
I guess the applications are simply calling N times N copies.
Moreover, the printing options (stapling, etc.) are absent from the Options panel, and I need to tune them through the general Setting panel of Ubuntu.
What is the communication channel between applications and CUPS? How can I configure my printing "pipeline" so that it directly calls something like the lp cmmand?
Thanks for your help!
Note: this is not the same situation as https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/265538/cups-prints-n%C2%B2-as-many-copies-as-i-want since in their case, the lp command was giving also the wrong number of copies.
printing cups-lpd
asked Feb 1 at 14:24
ClovisClovis
111
I just upgraded to 18.04LTS, I print over a network printer using CUPS.
Since my upgrade, when printing N copies of a PDF (through Okular or Evince), I get N^2 copies printed. However, when I use a direct call to CUPS: lp -d my-printer -n 5 example.pdf I get the right number of copies (5 in this example).
I guess the applications are simply calling N times N copies.
Moreover, the printing options (stapling, etc.) are absent from the Options panel, and I need to tune them through the general Setting panel of Ubuntu.
What is the communication channel between applications and CUPS? How can I configure my printing "pipeline" so that it directly calls something like the lp cmmand?
Thanks for your help!
Note: this is not the same situation as https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/265538/cups-prints-n%C2%B2-as-many-copies-as-i-want since in their case, the lp command was giving also the wrong number of copies.
printing cups-lpd
printing cups-lpd
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This may be a result of the Okular bug Okular, when printing 2 pages per sheet, prints the wrong pages. which says:
If I try and print two pages from a PDF (a Canon camera manual in this instance), two per A4 sheet, I get four pages, the wrong ones, two per sheet.
As Nate Graham discusses it may be a lower-level Qt bug, which could possibly be Printing multiple copies with WebEngine results in printing (number of copies) * (number of copies) copies. which was allegedly fixed in Qt 5.8 and 18.04 should have 5.9.5, so I'm not sure why it would persist, but it appears there is still a bug in Qt or in Okular.
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This may be a result of the Okular bug Okular, when printing 2 pages per sheet, prints the wrong pages. which says:
If I try and print two pages from a PDF (a Canon camera manual in this instance), two per A4 sheet, I get four pages, the wrong ones, two per sheet.
As Nate Graham discusses it may be a lower-level Qt bug, which could possibly be Printing multiple copies with WebEngine results in printing (number of copies) * (number of copies) copies. which was allegedly fixed in Qt 5.8 and 18.04 should have 5.9.5, so I'm not sure why it would persist, but it appears there is still a bug in Qt or in Okular.
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This may be a result of the Okular bug Okular, when printing 2 pages per sheet, prints the wrong pages. which says:
If I try and print two pages from a PDF (a Canon camera manual in this instance), two per A4 sheet, I get four pages, the wrong ones, two per sheet.
As Nate Graham discusses it may be a lower-level Qt bug, which could possibly be Printing multiple copies with WebEngine results in printing (number of copies) * (number of copies) copies. which was allegedly fixed in Qt 5.8 and 18.04 should have 5.9.5, so I'm not sure why it would persist, but it appears there is still a bug in Qt or in Okular.
answered Feb 1 at 16:37
Kristopher IvesKristopher Ives
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This may be a result of the Okular bug Okular, when printing 2 pages per sheet, prints the wrong pages. which says:
If I try and print two pages from a PDF (a Canon camera manual in this instance), two per A4 sheet, I get four pages, the wrong ones, two per sheet.
As Nate Graham discusses it may be a lower-level Qt bug, which could possibly be Printing multiple copies with WebEngine results in printing (number of copies) * (number of copies) copies. which was allegedly fixed in Qt 5.8 and 18.04 should have 5.9.5, so I'm not sure why it would persist, but it appears there is still a bug in Qt or in Okular.
answered Feb 1 at 16:37
Kristopher IvesKristopher Ives
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This may be a result of the Okular bug Okular, when printing 2 pages per sheet, prints the wrong pages. which says:
If I try and print two pages from a PDF (a Canon camera manual in this instance), two per A4 sheet, I get four pages, the wrong ones, two per sheet.
As Nate Graham discusses it may be a lower-level Qt bug, which could possibly be Printing multiple copies with WebEngine results in printing (number of copies) * (number of copies) copies. which was allegedly fixed in Qt 5.8 and 18.04 should have 5.9.5, so I'm not sure why it would persist, but it appears there is still a bug in Qt or in Okular.
answered Feb 1 at 16:37
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