Bug 144439 - FireFox won't print multiple copies
Summary: FireFox won't print multiple copies
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
: 9581 144485 (view as bug list)
Alias: None
Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Firefox (show other bugs)
Version: Final
Hardware: x86 SuSE Linux 10.0
: P5 - None : Normal
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Assignee: Wolfgang Rosenauer
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Reported: 2006-01-20 17:00 UTC by Barry Trout
Modified: 2006-04-18 18:19 UTC (History)
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Description Barry Trout 2006-01-20 17:00:05 UTC 
When you ask for more than one copy on print window, you get one.

Konquerer ( on same page ) and other apps works fine.
Comment 1 Wolfgang Rosenauer 2006-01-20 19:11:05 UTC 
*** Bug 9581 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Wolfgang Rosenauer 2006-01-20 20:13:43 UTC 
*** Bug 144485 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Robert O'Callahan 2006-04-04 02:48:39 UTC 
In my tests, it does work. It works by setting the number of copies in Postscript's setpagedevice, so stuff like evince won't show the multiple copies, but my printer makes them. The copies are NOT collated, so I get N copies of the first page, then N copies of the second page, and so on. Right now I don't know how to get collation to work.

If this is still a problem, please attach the "print to file" output of a) Firefox trying to print 2 copies, and b) some other app printing two copies. Thanks!
Comment 4 Wolfgang Rosenauer 2006-04-18 13:15:51 UTC 
setpagedevice most probably doesn't work for non-postscript printers.
Comment 5 Wolfgang Rosenauer 2006-04-18 18:19:02 UTC 
OK, I've checked this while fixing another issue.
I expect that this feature doesn't work for non-postscript printers (and also not for some postscript printers) in Firefox 1.0.x.
With Firefox 1.5 it should work in the following cases:
- if you use a postscript printer (the same condition as above)
- if you use a CUPS printer (since CUPS support is much better now)

For Firefox 1.0 I have to say "wontfix".
You might want to use 
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/mozilla/firefox/1.5.0.2/