On Wednesday 06 January 2010 17:23:09 gene.poole@macys.com wrote:

I recently purchased a HP Officejet Pro 8500 (A909a) and it's ethernet attached. It's been configured and works perfectly from WinXP, Win Vista, Windows 7, and Fedora 11 x86_64. However, on my machine running CentOS 5.4 x86_64 I can't get the configuration to work so that it prints duplex (2-sided). The HP Setup appears to be working from the command line, but the graphic portion doesn't appear to work. Any ideas?

I have a Photosmart with duplexer, attached by wifi. I have some difficulty getting it to remember that I want duplex as default, but I can always configure it from the print dialogue. Does localhost:631 see the print queue correctly? I'm just wondering whether duplex needs to be set up there too. I you can't sort it, HP have a launchpad for problems, and I found them very helpful when I first got my all-in-one.

The other thing that strikes me, is that I did have problems on the CentOS box at first, because the hplip that was installed didn't have the correct, up-to- date ppd file. It could be worth checking that against your F11 box.

Anne