duplex printing with OOo.

[Gary Kline]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 08:28:34PM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:05:19 -0700, Gary Kline <kline at thought.org> wrote:
> > 
> > 	Well, after umch mucking around, the Brother 5250DN works with 
> > 	OO and prints in Duplex only if I turn the dialog to OFF where is
> > 	say
> > 
> > 	Duplex			__ [arrows]
> 
> Do I understand this correctly? Duplex works in OO when duplex
> is set to OFF = no duplex? Oh joy of modern software!


	that should have been::

 	Duplex			_OFF_ [arrows]
> 
> This reminds me to a POS program with a very creative
> error handling, it went like this:
> 
> 	switch error
> 	case 1: "printer not connected";
> 	case 2: "scanner not connected";
> 	case 4: "keyboard not connected";
> 	case 8: "some other error";
> 	...
> 	default: "file not found"; (without mentioning which file)


	LMOA! man, that's rich...  sounds like some seriously lazy hacking
	to me... .

> 
> Maybe OO should add something like "In order to activate a
> feature, deactivate it". :-)
> 

	i'm actually starting a ~/.helpOOo file with tricks and tips about the 
	program, mostly swriter.  there are some pretty sharp folks over on
	oooforum.org.  luckily:_)


> 
> 
> > 	Now that that's resolved, I can change the printer web page
> > 	config back to Simplex and everything will be fine.  The King
> > 	will be in his heaven; God will be in his Counting_House, &c.
> 
> I hope both are well, "up and running". :-)
> 
> By the way, long time that I saw someone write "&c.".
> 
	not sure if easier to type "etc." or "&c", given the shift-7 == '&'
	... but it's different.

	gary


> 
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> Polytropon
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