LM 12 Cinnamon: Cannot Save Printer Settings

[skibum1981]

Hi. I have an HP Color LaserJet 4700dn installed through my network, which was discovered by system-config-printer, and installed using the HPLIP connection. Unfortunately, whenever I try to save job options to duplex (i.e., flip long edge), the setting automatically reverts to one-sided; if I click apply in the printer settings, it immediately goes back to one-sided, and if I click OK, the next time I open the printer settings it's back to one-sided. I've tried running system-config-printer from terminal as root as well, same thing.

Anyone have any ideas?

[skibum1981]

Anyone?

[DrHu]

I would use the cups backend to check/set the printer settings
--there were some bugs in the GUI front ends such as Gnome printing and Hplip..
http://hplip-cups.blogspot.ca/
--hplip has its own setup for printers, but cups is always available and hplip depends on cups running..

[skibum1981]

How do I go about doing that?

[skibum1981]

Well, this wasn't at all helpful.

[Red Bow Tie]

You did try running system-config-printer as root correct? I, too, have 2 networked hp printers. When I dropped to a root terminal and ran the system-config-printer from there I saved the changes for duplex and it took. The only additional package I installed was hplip-cups. This was in cinnamon only. If you search for system-config-printer in software manager a package called system-config-printer-udev is installed by default. The description says it is used to auto configure printers. One of my printers had no option to print duplex, perhaps caused by the system-config-printer-udev program, even though capable of doing duplex printing. When I overrode it by using the root terminal to run system-config-printer all was saved and is now working properly.