printer prints 4 in a page, from browser only

[A.J. Bonnema]

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.


Guus.
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