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Manual Duplex printing for Mac (and/or Linux)

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Mar 15, 20269681 views
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Problem

My printers don't support automatic duplex printing. I'm looking for a solution for my Mac and Linux computers that I've seen with most Windows printer drivers: Check "Manual duplex" in the printer screen Printer starts printing one side A dialog appears, asking me to flip the pages Printer prints …

Error Output

mv "$1" /tmp/odd.pdf
mv "$2" /tmp/even.pdf
lpr /tmp/odd.pdf

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Fix for: Manual Duplex printing for Mac (and/or Linux)

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ALMOST, but no cigar yet: the 4th step only gets the odd pages from the 1st step, and then takes the even pages from that set... That's no good. I will delete this some time later, unless I think of something smart. (The 1st step can also be made to…

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