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Printing from OPENVPMS - number of copies doesnt do anything

Submitted by Ben_Charlton on Thu, 04/01/2024 - 10:16
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Under OpenVPMS 2.4-beta selecting the number of copies doesnt seem to do much

It doesnt print multiple copies just 1.
 

The system is setup using a docker instance running under Ubuntu 18.

 

The docker instance of tomcat acts a client to the System which has a CUPS print server running that manages printing

We have confirmed that printing from the commandline using

 

LP -n 2 <doc>

Works in both the host and the docker instance and produces 2 copies.

At this stage with think the javax print implementation may be flawed.

JAVA version is Temurin 11.0.17 

cups-client                          2.3.1-9ubuntu1.2         

 

Cups does report some issues with printing copies and has a recommendations to add

*cupsManualCopies True to the printers ppd file - this should force cups to send multiple print jobs v 1 with multiple copies

We did try this but give we could already print multiple copies it seemed a flawed work around

 

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Re: Printing from OPENVPMS - number of copies doesnt do anything

Submitted by tanderson on Wed, 10/01/2024 - 08:57.

Different template types use different print mechanisms.

Try printing multiple copies for:

1. JasperReports (e.g. Invoices, Receipts)

2. Word/OpenOffice templates

If this doesn't work, but does work when setting the cupsManualCopies flag to true, its a CUPS issue; the no. of copies are correctly being sent through to CUPS but the driver is ignoring them.

Check to see if there is a different driver for your printer that supports multiple copies.

Also see https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/441513/how-can-i-tell-a-cups-pr...

 

 

 

Re: Printing from OPENVPMS - number of copies doesnt do anything

Submitted by Ascot_Vet_Surgery on Tue, 06/02/2024 - 09:12.

I can confirm that I just printed to the same printer 

1. JRXML  - 2 copies requested - 1 printed

2. OOffice - 2 copies requested  - 2 printed

So it definitely works but 1 implementation is not?

 

Re: Printing from OPENVPMS - number of copies doesnt do anything

Submitted by tanderson on Thu, 08/02/2024 - 13:18.

Both work for me, when printing on Windows. If you specify cupsManualCopies, do both work for you?

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