Bug 160619

Summary: Create Separate Print Jobs for collated output fails
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: Robert Marmorstein <robertandbeth>
Component: Printing and PDF exportAssignee: Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status: UNCONFIRMED ---    
Severity: minor CC: stephane.guillou
Priority: medium    
Version: 7.6.5.2 release   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux (All)   
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Description Robert Marmorstein 2024-04-10 22:03:57 UTC 
When I print multiple copies of a two sided document, a bug in my printer driver requires me to make each copy a separate print job.  To do this, I enable the checkbox for "Create separate print jobs for collated output" in the print dialog.

This works -- but only if I turn "Create separate print jobs for collated output" off and then back on by double clicking on it before I print.

If I don't do this, my print job prints page 1 on the back of page 1 instead of properly collating them.

However, if I double click both these options, it works correctly every time.

This is a minor annoyance, since I have a workaround that works for me -- but it is moderately annoying and wastes a lot of paper when I forget to do the "magic doubleclick".
Comment 1 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2024-04-26 04:12:46 UTC 
(In reply to Robert Marmorstein from comment #0)
> However, if I double click both these options, it works correctly every time.
What are the two options? "Create separate print jobs for collated output" and ...?

Can you please also:
- share your printer model
- paste here the version info copied with the button in the dialog Help > About LibreOffice

Thank you.
Comment 2 Robert Marmorstein 2024-04-26 04:18:03 UTC 
I've actually experienced this with multiple printers: a Brother DCP-L2550DW and an HP LaserJet 1022N.
Comment 3 Robert Marmorstein 2024-04-26 04:18:29 UTC 
And here is my version information (though I've experienced this through several versions now)

Version: 7.6.5.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 60(Build:2)
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 6.5; UI render: default; VCL: kf5 (cairo+xcb)
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Ubuntu package version: 4:7.6.5-0ubuntu0.23.10.1
Calc: threaded
Comment 4 QA Administrators 2024-04-27 03:17:08 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 5 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2024-04-29 02:15:25 UTC 
Thank you.

(In reply to Stéphane Guillou (stragu) from comment #1)
> (In reply to Robert Marmorstein from comment #0)
> > However, if I double click both these options, it works correctly every time.
> What are the two options? "Create separate print jobs for collated output"
> and ...?
What about the above?
Comment 6 Robert Marmorstein 2024-04-29 02:20:00 UTC 
Oh, sorry, I missed that before.

I was actually able to narrow it down to just that one checkbox ("Create separate print jobs for collated output") and forgot to change "both" to "this".  Before, I'd been checking and unchecking both "collate" and "create separate print jobs for collated output").
Comment 7 QA Administrators 2024-04-29 03:13:41 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)