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Duplex Printing Problems OpenOffice 4.1.1

I have an H-P Officejet Pro 8600 (really nice printer). It includes a duplex accessory and automatically prints on both sides of the paper with every application I use with the exception of OpenOffice 4.1.1.

No matter what I do in OpenOffice to "turn on" duplex printing it gets "turned off" by OpenOffice and a print job is printed one-sided. Everything else, including Okular (for PDF files -- this is a 64-bit system and Adobe doesn't support 64-bit as far as I know), prints duplex; from the console pipe a file into lp, any web page, e-mail, you name it, both sides likety split.

There must be something somewhere embedded in OpenOffice that I've missed but I can't seem to figure out what or where and I'd appreciate any advice on how to make the blasted thing work.

Thanks.

tronayne,

As above recommendation, it is no bad idea to get the latest version of LibreOffice (4.4.1):

http://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-fresh/

I found these comments which may be of use to you.

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I have Ubuntu 13.10 w/ Libreoffice 4.1.3.2, an HP 6520 and HPLIP v 3.14.4. After selecting file/print/properties, in the new window the option for "Duplex" shows "Off". If I change that to "Long-Edge", then "OK", and then select "Properties" again, "Duplex" shows "Off" again. However, if I change "Off" to "ignore", then "OK", and then select "Properties" again, now "Duplex" shows "Long Edge" and the printer prints on both sides!

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The above workaround is good and simple. I have HP 8620 and ubuntu 14.4, and had the identical problem - you set ´duplex and ´long-edge'in the print box but it immediately reverts to non-duplex. Just to clarify, in case it is different on different set-ups, this is what worked for me:- You just set the paper to ´A4 AutoDuplex´ ( ordinary A4 setting seems to work also). Then you set the duplex choice to ´ígnore´( instead of ĺong edge´. Ok it, reopen it, and hey presto, it now says Long edge.

I have found that if you just reopen the properties box a second time, the settings will revert to non-duplex. Same thing if you alter any other setting - so set duplex last thing before printing!

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Originally Posted by beachboy2 (Post 5331780)

That works -- setting "ignore" did the trick, three page document on two pieces of paper.

Thank you.

By the way, I have nothing against LibreOffice: I just prefer OpenOffice and have a group of folks I support using OpenOffice with Win7 (which works just fine for all of them and does duplex without the magic trick). OpenOffice appears to have a larger selection of templates and is not so Eurocentric (at least that's my impression, could be wrong about that). The couple of times I tried LibreOffice (a long time ago) I just didn't really care for it and stuck with OpenOffice even before Apache took it over from Oracle.

Anyway, just an opinion, not a carefully researched in depth report.