Printing will not allow multiple pages

[Stormdrainer]

I use Linux Mint 20.2 Cinnamon (5.0.7). The kernel is 5.4.0-121-generic. As the heading says, the problem I have is that if I try to print more than one page, I still get just a single page. Can anyone help please? Am I failing to do something or is it a bug. Until recently it used to work fine.

[Cosmo.]

Printing what? Office document? Which type? Something else? What exactly?
Which steps do you use? This question is for reproducing the issue.

[Catsbark]

I'm going to jump in here, just in case my printing issue stems from a similar thing to Stormdrainer's.

I have a LibreOffice Calc spreadsheet that prints on exactly one page. I regularly print 5 copies of this document. Except the print multiple copies function does not work. I can tell the print dialog to print 5 copies, but one comes out and the system (LibreOffice->printer driver->LM->printer) says printing is complete. This behavior also occurs with Text Editor, so I think we can absolve LIbreOffice.

I have Hplip (HP LInux Printing and Imaging System) installed through Software Manager. Other configuration as follows:

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~$ inxi -Fxz
System:
  Kernel: 5.15.0-33-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A 
  Desktop: Cinnamon 5.2.7 Distro: Linux Mint 20.3 Una 
  base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Inspiron 5575 v: 1.3.3 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: Dell model: 0M0Y6P v: X01 serial: <filter> UEFI: Dell v: 1.3.3 
  date: 10/31/2019 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 39.1 Wh condition: 39.1/42.0 Wh (93%) 
  model: SDI 0x4D,0x38,0x35,0x34,0x00,0x00,0x00D8 status: Full 
  Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Keyboard 
  charge: 55% (should be ignored) status: Discharging 
CPU:
  Topology: Quad Core model: AMD Ryzen 5 2500U with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx 
  bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen L2 cache: 2048 KiB 
  flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm 
  bogomips: 31941 
  Speed: 1456 MHz min/max: 1600/2000 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1388 2: 1329 
  3: 1368 4: 1371 5: 1398 6: 1369 7: 1489 8: 1533 
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Raven Ridge [Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Vega Mobile Series] 
  vendor: Dell driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus ID: 04:00.0 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.13 driver: amdgpu,ati 
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: AMD Radeon Vega 8 Graphics (RAVEN DRM 3.42.0 
  5.15.0-33-generic LLVM 12.0.0) 
  v: 4.6 Mesa 21.2.6 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD Raven/Raven2/Fenghuang HDMI/DP Audio vendor: Dell 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 04:00.1 
  Device-2: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel 
  v: kernel bus ID: 04:00.6 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.15.0-33-generic 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet vendor: Dell 
  driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 2000 bus ID: 02:00.0 
  IF: enp2s0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter 
  vendor: Dell driver: ath10k_pci v: kernel port: 2000 bus ID: 03:00.0 
  IF: wlp3s0 state: up mac: <filter> 
  Device-3: Qualcomm Atheros type: USB driver: btusb bus ID: 3-2.4:6 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 2.27 TiB used: 285.23 GiB (12.2%) 
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Crucial model: CT500P1SSD8 size: 465.76 GiB 
  ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST1000LM035-1RK172 size: 931.51 GiB 
  ID-3: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: Seagate model: BUP Slim SL 
  size: 931.51 GiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 38.22 GiB used: 15.33 GiB (40.1%) fs: ext4 
  dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 
  ID-2: /home size: 418.49 GiB used: 20.64 GiB (4.9%) fs: ext4 
  dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: N/A mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 67 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 2500 
Info:
  Processes: 326 Uptime: 6h 09m Memory: 7.41 GiB used: 3.05 GiB (41.1%) 
  Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 9.4.0 Shell: bash v: 5.0.17 
  inxi: 3.0.38

I can print a single multi-page document just fine.

I hope I'm not hijacking Stormdrainer's thread.

Catsbark

[mikeflan]

@Catsbark
I'm glad to say that your experience is unusual. On my machine it prints any number of copies of the single page Calc printout that I specify. I use LO 7.3.4.2 Flatpak.

Just for grins, open Printers, click on check mark (completed jobs), what does it say. Here is mine:

[RollyShed]

Not an unusual problem.

I have one computer with that problem at the Shed. LibreOffice, you hit "Print", there is a panel with options for prinitng the pages i.e. 1-4 or 3 etc, and under that MORE. Click on that and "Number of copies" appears. Except it doesn't on one computer.
As far as I know, got to check it, both have the same version. An OK version here is running 6.4.7.2

[kato181]

Try these links..There is a known bug in cupps..

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https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=51&t=341965

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https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=51&t=348139

[Cosmo.]

@kato181:

Placing links in a code box is a bad idea, because this makes links (by design) unclickable. I suggest you edit your post and remove the code tags.

[kato181]

Ooops...my mistake, lapse in concentration.