Cannot print double-sided or landscape to a text-only print queue in RHEL

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Issue

  • The test of the double-sided page was sent to p12, and it was done in 2 sheets, instead of double-sided.
  • I have the lpoption landscape=true set but it is ignored by the printer queue. We expect to see printouts to this queue in landscape mode. We are using the textonly type of printing.
  • We want to change the cpi to 15 or 16 on our text only laser printer. We have the following in our lpoptions file: "Dest ITlaser1 columns=132 cpi=16.66 lpi=6 wrap=false" but that doesn't seem to be working.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
  • Common Unix Printing System (CUPS)

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