I upgraded a server from Mandrake 10 to Debian, setup CUPS to use the
same printer drives for the OKI Data 9 pin. The printing is of by about
6cm to the left now and I cannot move the paper on the roller any more
to make it line up again. I ran an md5sum on the ppd file s
in /etc/cups/ppd and found they are exactly the same on the Debian
system as they are on the Mandrake one.

This has happened before with an OpenOffice document that I used to
print labels, after upgrading from Mandrake to Suse on my desktop that
time the labels were way off and not just from the side but also from
the top and I think in scale also.

Any idea why cups would do this or how I can fix it? The customer is not
happy with the new Debian system because they need to columns to line up
on the pre-printed invoice sheets.

I was thinking that maybe cups is using an external font to generate the
output but I cannot find any indication in the code that it is using an
external font file, but this would make sense because people are also
complaining that the new server is printing much slower now even though
the CPU is four times fasts and has a lot more RAM. The server runs
faster and the print job starts fine but the head of the 9 pin printer
moves much slower. WTFIUWT?

What other config files should I look at that may affect the layout and
speed of printing from cups?


Royce Souther
www.SiliconTao.com
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