One of the aspects where Remmina as remote desktop client, running on Linux Mint, has proven better than the option we have on Windows 11 at work, is that it respect the printer settings.
To save on paper cost, the invoices we send to our clients are printed on both sides of the paper. On Windows 10 and 11, it is a hit or miss option. It does respects it a few times, mostly ignoring it. While on Remmina, we set it once when the printer is added and we can count that it will print on both sides of the paper,
We have test it on at least three brands of printers, like HP and Bother. While on Remmina it works consistently on every printer, on Windows it consistently fails to work. One would think that running a Windows remote desktop on a Windows computer would be easy to set it up, it has proven not to be. While doing so on 3 different laptops running Linux Mint has worked every time.
To be honest, setting printing on both sides should be something that just works. That it doesn't work on Windows not matter the printer, or the computer you use, is something that baffles me. Specially since is something that is easy to do, and works consistently on several computers running Linux Mint.
For my department, is has been a long standing problem. For some five years, I've the only one that could print double sides print outs directly from the remote desktop. My boss, and coworker, had to send the document to their local desktop to be able to do so, which is not that bad if it something we do sparingly. Yet, we need to do it several times a day, then it becomes a problem.
Something so simple doesn't have a simple fix, and it seems that it is something that won't be fixed anytime soon. Which is a shame and frustrating.
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