printer prints 4 in a page, from browser only

[Kam Leo]

On 5/18/06, A.J. Bonnema <abonnema at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> Tim Waugh wrote:
> > On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 06:15:08AM +0200, A.J. Bonnema wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> My browsers insists on printing 4 pages on one physical page and nowhere
> >> I can find the option to set this back to normal: 1 page per physical
> >> page.
> >>
> >> All other printing (from PDF etc) print normal.
> >>
> >> Does anyone have any idea how I can reset this behaviour to normal?
> >
> > The CUPS option that does this is called 'number-up'.  Perhaps the
> > lpoptions command will show whether you have this set somewhere.
> >
> > Tim.
> > */
> >
>
> The output from the command lpoptions is:
> "
> [root at athene ~]# lpoptions
> job-sheets=none,none printer-info='HP Laserjet 1200'
> printer-is-accepting-jobs=1  printer-is-shared=1
> printer-make-and-model='HP LaserJet 1200 Foomatic/pxlmono (
> recommended)' printer-state=3 printer-state-change-time=1147969389
> printer-state -reasons=none printer-type=143364 scp-fc5=true
> "
>
> So, no number-up. Makes sense, because regular printing is ok (all
> non-browsing applications). However, I may have found the cause.
>
> After issuing the above command I started Konquerer, it also printed
> 4-up, so I had a look at the properties and this time I could see the
> parameter: 4 pages per physical page (a KDE dialog).
>
> Switching this backup to 1 page, corrected the situation for Konquerer
> *and* Thunderbird.
>
> Remarkable is that a KDE dialog influences Thunderbird running from gnome.
>

Why? Thunderbird is the same application in both desktops.

>
> Guus.
> --
> A.J. Bonnema, Leiden The Netherlands,
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