(OT) OSX Command line printing to Brother MFC-J5930DW

[Bill Campbell]

I just got a Brother MFC-J5930DW to replace a Ricoh color laser,
and have it working OK from our Linux systems, and on OS X GUI
programs like Preview, Chrome, etc. with default duplex printing.

I have configured the printer on the Mac using the CUPS web
interface on port 631, setting the defaults to two-sided long
edge binding and such.  I've also use the web interface to the
printer to set duplex printing as the default.

My problem is that printing from the command line with 'lp' don't
pick up the default duplex settings so print single-sided, and
fill the page to the top instead of leaving the 1/4in margin when
printing PDF files.  When printing text files, the top line is
cut off.

I've tried various '-o' options (e.g. -o sides=two-sided-long-edge)
both from the command line, and in $HOME/.cups/lpoptions, but to
no avail.

Searching Google if find various things that seem to say that the
options may be something like '-o HP_Duplex=True' which are
specific to a vendor's PPD file.  I don't know much about CUPS
other than writing SYSV style interface files that go in the
/etc/cups/interfaces directory.  This works fine on Linux
systems, but I'm reluctant to mess around with 'lpadmin' on OS X
at this time.

While this printer doesn't handle PCL5, and Brother's PCL5
support seems to be Windows only, I am working around that on the
Linux side with ghostpdl to create PDF files for printing.

Bill
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