Stan Brown
November 6th 05, 04:16 PM
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 11:19:25 -0400, I wrote:
>On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 14:49:45 -0500 in
> microsoft.public.windowsxp.general, Admiral Michael favored us with...
>> Try doing a two-sided page. I tried something similar with my
>> brother laser printer and while it printed, two-sided printing
>> didn't work. The popup didnt show asking to flip the page.
>Worked for me, and I verified BrSpl is still turned off.
>(Remember I've got a Brother HL-5150D, so duplexing is automatic.)
For the record, I've finally found one effect of turning off the
BrSpl service with the Brother HL-5150D printer, and I'm documenting
it here to help the next person who searches. While ordinary
duplexing works fine with BrSpl service turned off, booklet printing
doesn't work. The pages come out duplexed in normal order and at
normal size, where they should come out half size, rotated 90
degrees, and in booklet order.
This morning was the first time since before 21 Sep that I tried
booklet printing, and I couldn't imagine why it didn't work. (There
was, of course, no error message of any kind.) I finally removed and
reinstalled the printer, and still couldn't make a booklet. Finally I
remembered turning off BrSpl because it had no (apparent) effect; I
turned it back on and it was fine.
Boo on Brother for not documenting this service. Boo also for not
having the driver turn it on wen needed -- I hadn't disabled the
service, just changed it from Automatic to Manual.
[followups to microsoft.public.windowsxp.print_fax]
--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/
"If there's one thing I know, it's men. I ought to: it's
been my life work." -- Marie Dressler, in /Dinner at Eight/
>On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 14:49:45 -0500 in
> microsoft.public.windowsxp.general, Admiral Michael favored us with...
>> Try doing a two-sided page. I tried something similar with my
>> brother laser printer and while it printed, two-sided printing
>> didn't work. The popup didnt show asking to flip the page.
>Worked for me, and I verified BrSpl is still turned off.
>(Remember I've got a Brother HL-5150D, so duplexing is automatic.)
For the record, I've finally found one effect of turning off the
BrSpl service with the Brother HL-5150D printer, and I'm documenting
it here to help the next person who searches. While ordinary
duplexing works fine with BrSpl service turned off, booklet printing
doesn't work. The pages come out duplexed in normal order and at
normal size, where they should come out half size, rotated 90
degrees, and in booklet order.
This morning was the first time since before 21 Sep that I tried
booklet printing, and I couldn't imagine why it didn't work. (There
was, of course, no error message of any kind.) I finally removed and
reinstalled the printer, and still couldn't make a booklet. Finally I
remembered turning off BrSpl because it had no (apparent) effect; I
turned it back on and it was fine.
Boo on Brother for not documenting this service. Boo also for not
having the driver turn it on wen needed -- I hadn't disabled the
service, just changed it from Automatic to Manual.
[followups to microsoft.public.windowsxp.print_fax]
--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/
"If there's one thing I know, it's men. I ought to: it's
been my life work." -- Marie Dressler, in /Dinner at Eight/