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(first of all the possibility has to be there)
i think two sided printing (i mean page 1,3,5,... on front, page 2,4,6,.. on the back of the paper) has to be easier than for example in open office.. there you have to manually set the pages you want to print with a ; devidet.. (do this for a hundred pages ^^)

maybe a small wizard would be best.. "2sided" - "insert paper"- "print" - "turn printed pages around and insert again" - "print"

or something like that..

The problem is not all printers grab and feed paper the same way.

That is also a problem with built-in duplexers, but okular (or KDE in general) supports double-sided printing for those.

hmm.. how do you do it in okular?

@waldelf: if your printer is set up to allow it, you expand Options, Options tab, and set how you want to paper to be handled. One tip - accept the default paper size if you possibly can - I've had a lot of problem when I've tried to change it to A4, and no problem when printing to Letter.

For manual duplexing, as the original question mentioned, I know that printing ranges is ready for release, and I think that that includes what you are asking for, so hang on in there. Not much longer

I am operating with a printer right now with my Macs. It works flawlessly with my Dell Laptop too. It does print two sided without problem (saves paper and space). It also includes a USB 2.0 as well as a network interface.

http://www.rastersoft.com/gtkpsproc.html

I would like to see a qt4 app like gtkpsproc! It will help saving paper!

Windows hp drivers give the user the options to print even pages then odd pages!

Kde and linux really needs this! And I really need this!

Printing just even or odd pages will be available in KDE 4.4.

TheBlackCat wrote:Printing just even or odd pages will be available in KDE 4.4.

But I think a gui like gtkpsproc is what we need! A gui like windows hp printer drivers have. Just being able to select odd or even pages to print isn't what users expect. Most of users will ignore that!

Manual duplex printing should be an option, and based on how printer grab and feed paper (should have a database - hp is different from Epson, etc) the gui should ask to reinsert the paper at correct position on printer.

I hope you understand my idea!

But I think a gui like gtkpsproc is what we need! A gui like windows hp printer drivers have. Just being able to select odd or even pages to print isn't what users expect. Most of users will ignore that!

As has already been said, different printers handle paper in different ways. The functionality you speak of was traditionally supplied by the manufacturer's Windows driver. The equivalent to that would be to get it in hplip or a similar vendor-supplied package, which could then be used by the kde printing application.

gtkpsproc have this functionality, and handle different printers. In linux world waiting for manufacturer's is give up of this function!

It does look quite useful. However, looking at the developer's log, November 2007 was the last time he worked on it, so there may be dependency problems. I also note that I didn't see any reference to license - did you?

Sometimes practicalities like these get in the way of what you'd like to see.

To me this looks like a great solution for people without having a duplex printer (like myself)!!!

Print the frontpages then turn the paper, reinsert it and print the backpages.

Does this gtkpsprocs do that? If it's hard to insert that into the printing dialog (or in your eyes confusing) maybe a small application handling postscript being able would do the job.

LBL wrote:
Print the frontpages then turn the paper, reinsert it and print the backpages.

Does this gtkpsprocs do that?

Yes, gtkpsprocs do that. I used gtkpsprocs in ubuntu Hardy, author help-me make it work on intrepid. It's a gtk app. But now I'm back to kde (Kubuntu Juanty) and author stop develop the app.

Vote for it!

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60037