Today I came across a weird #printer problem.

[drajt@fosstodon.org]

Today I came across a weird #printer problem. From #Debian #Linux I could print to the #Canon PIXMA printer in simplex or #duplex.

BUT, in duplex mode it would print a side, eject the paper, re-load the paper, then eject it again without printing anything on it, and then start the second page on a separate sheet of paper.

This happened from my PC and a separate one using the stock #IPP driver in #CUPS

Annoyingly it works perfectly in Windows...

[numodular@c.im]

@drajt I seem to recall that CUPS defaulted back to A4 settings, after an update, a couple of years ago. Mayhap something similar happened to you?

[drajt@fosstodon.org]

@numodular A4 is the size of paper used here, so we are using A4 paper, and the application is printing in A4 and CUPS thinks it's set for A4, but Google did say if the printer thinks it's using Letter then it could get confused...

Letter is very rare here at home (it's a common problem in offices when people send you documents that aren't A4), so I don't think it's likely - but it's possible and at the moment I'd try anything...

[macer@his.macer.life]

@drajt I have the same issue where in duplex my brother will pull the paper back in to print nothing on the other side when there are no more pages. It didn’t even dawn on me to check the paper type. I’ll see what it is when I get home.