print on both sides of paper--solved!

[Douglas McGArrett]

On 11/9/22 12:39, Peter Flynn wrote:
>
> On 09/11/2022 03:30, Douglas McGArrett wrote:
> [snip]
>> I finally found, after a lot of poking around, an official HP
>> printers set-up. Perhaps I should have found it earlier, but nobody
>> else reading here found it either, and it's right in plain sight!
>>
>> Go to the application launcher (at the lowest left corner of the 
>> display). Select All  Applications. Scroll down to HP Device Manager.. 
>
> Yes, that's the hp-devicesettings program. It's one of those I said 
> would be listed if you type hp-<tab><tab>
>
>> Not quite as simple as that, in my case, since I have two HP
>> OfficeJet printers, and due to previous attempts to make HPLIP
>> function, the HP 7740 was left as the primary printer, and the HP6978
>> was left as a subsidiary.
> Yes, you have to install each printer in turn first.
Not sure what that means. Once you have installed one printer, I don't 
see how to do it "first."
>
>> [...] the question that Ubuntu should not have left unanswered in its
>> automatic setup routine.
>
> You're running Kubuntu, I think. I'd be interested to know what the 
> most recent plain Ubuntu (or Mint) make of your printers. Are they 
> both USB?
Yes, Kubuntu 22.04. I plan on installing Mint on my Windows 11 computer 
if I can get past its boot protection system. I'll see what happens then.
>
> Peter