Printing multiple pages per sheet doesn't work

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Published on 2013-05-23T14:18:03Z Indexed on 2013/06/28 10:29 UTC
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In Ubuntu 12.04, I added a network printer which I had previously used without any problems on a different machine (with the same release of Ubuntu).

Now, with the default generic driver installed, printing multiple pages per sheet from evince doesn't work properly. If I select 2 per sheet, be it long or short edge, it always prints 4.

Why is this?

It used to happen with non-pdf documents in the past, like from a browser. My workaround was to print to pdf file and then print the pdf itself. Now I'm clueless...

Edit: the same happens with a different network printer, in which I installed the driver specific to its particular model.

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