Samsung m2835dw printer error

[rikona]

On Tue, 15 Mar 2022 14:04:01 +0000
David Fletcher <dave at thefletchers.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 2022-03-14 at 18:31 -0700, rikona wrote:
> > error occurs when trying to print more than one copy of any doc, and
> > with any editor. Any ideas re how to fix this would be appreciated.
> >  
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've got a Brother HL-3040CN, network connected but I use CUPS on my
> home server as a print server. I occasionally need to print multi page
> documents double sided, multiple copies but the printer is not duplex
> capable so I need to do even sheets first with collate switched on
> then turn the sheets over into the paper tray and do the same with
> the odd sheets.
> 
> Trouble is the damned thing has taken to spitting out a blank sheet at
> the end of every copy of the even sheets. It used to work OK.
> 
> My kludge/workaround is to have anything I want to print in pdf
> format, open it with the document viewer, print to two pdf files, one
> for even sheets, one for odd with multiple copies and collation
> turned on. This works properly, i.e. without putting in the blank
> pages. Finally use the document viewer to do a straight, simple,
> single copy print of the even sheets file followed by the odd sheets
> file.
> 
> I'm sure I shouldn't have to do this but my workaround does the job,
> only takes a minute and means that I can check that what I'm going to
> print is exactly what I was intending to print by checking the odd and
> even sheets files BEFORE sending them to the printer.
> 
> I'm also sure that I cannot be the only one who has done double sided
> collated printing only to end up uttering expletives for several
> minutes after it's gone wrong and wasted 30 sheets of paper and toner.
> This doesn't happen now so I'll continue using my workaround anyway.
> 
> My laser printer takes paper off the top of the stack in the tray but
> the inkjet I used to have took the paper off the bottom of the stack
> in which case there might have to be some printing done in reverse
> page order. Very confusing but I've now written myself a printing
> procedure, follow it every time and no longer waste paper.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Dave

Thanks much for the suggestion. Sounds a bit messy but sometimes that's
what's needed. :-) It worked fine for years, but has this problem after
updates. Trying to understand why that happened.

Printer itself is fine - I can do multiple pages from an Apple, even
double sided. Linux printing is not so good now. One of my current
workarounds is to move the file to Apple and print from there, but
would be nice to just print, as I used to do. 

Appreciate the suggestion though.

Rik