printing setup

[Tyler Smith]

Hi,

I'm just starting to set up my printer, and all is well except for one
thing. The page prints too close to the top of the paper, so that I lose
the top cm or so off the top of the paper. I'm not sure if this is a
CUPS issue, a printer issue, a driver issue? I looked around the CUPS
webpage, and did some googling, but I'm not really sure what I'm looking
for. Any pointers?

Details:
Thinkpad R60 running testing
SAMSUNG ML-2010 laserjet printer
Installed everything I found in aptitude under tasks->servers->print
  servers, including all recommends and most suggests. (i.e., cupssys,
  printconf, foomatic and friends)
Installed and configured the printer using http://localhost:631
Printing via GtkLP, at least until I figure out the command-line
Printing pdf is fine, except for the problem described above

Thanks,

Tyler

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[Tyler Smith]

tyler <tyler.smith@...> writes:

> I'm just starting to set up my printer, and all is well except for one
> thing. The page prints too close to the top of the paper, so that I lose
> the top cm or so off the top of the paper. I'm not sure if this is a
> CUPS issue, a printer issue, a driver issue? I looked around the CUPS
> webpage, and did some googling, but I'm not really sure what I'm looking
> for. Any pointers?
>
> Details:
> Thinkpad R60 running testing
> SAMSUNG ML-2010 laserjet printer
> Installed everything I found in aptitude under tasks->servers->print
>   servers, including all recommends and most suggests. (i.e., cupssys,
>   printconf, foomatic and friends)
> Installed and configured the printer using http://localhost:631
> Printing via GtkLP, at least until I figure out the command-line
> Printing pdf is fine, except for the problem described above
>

Further to my first message, using the fitplot flag from the command line:

lp -o fitplot -d ml-2010 my.pdf

appears to correct the problem, so I at least have a temporary fix.

Tyler

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[Russell L. Harris-2]

* tyler <tyler.smith@...> [080517 13:49]:
> tyler <tyler.smith@...> writes:
>
>> I'm just starting to set up my printer, and all is well except for one
>> thing. The page prints too close to the top of the paper, so that I lose
>> the top cm or so off the top of the paper. I'm not sure if this is a
>> CUPS issue, a printer issue, a driver issue? I looked around the CUPS
>> webpage, and did some googling, but I'm not really sure what I'm looking
>> for. Any pointers?

Check the default papersize (typically A4 or letter).

    $ apropos paper

See the man pages for:  papersize, paperconf, paperconfig, texconfig.


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[Tyler Smith]

"Russell L. Harris" <rlharris@...> writes:

> * tyler <tyler.smith@...> [080517 13:49]:
>> tyler <tyler.smith@...> writes:
>>
>>> I'm just starting to set up my printer, and all is well except for one
>>> thing. The page prints too close to the top of the paper, so that I lose
>>> the top cm or so off the top of the paper. I'm not sure if this is a
>>> CUPS issue, a printer issue, a driver issue? I looked around the CUPS
>>> webpage, and did some googling, but I'm not really sure what I'm looking
>>> for. Any pointers?
>
> Check the default papersize (typically A4 or letter).
>
>     $ apropos paper
>
> See the man pages for:  papersize, paperconf, paperconfig, texconfig.
>
>

Thanks!

I checked through the man pages, and as far as I can tell my default
paper size is correctly set to letter, 8.5" x 11". paperconfig isn't
installed, and I don't know what package it's part of, so that may be a
problem? Also, when printing from Firefox/Iceweasel I found that I
needed to reduce the page by 70% to get it to fit onto the page. The
option to scale the page to paper size didn't work on its own. Anything
else I should look at?

Cheers,

Tyler

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