How does K-Mail send the file to print to CUPS? As PostScript or as
plain text. Try to print to a file (option in K-Mail) and look at the
resulting file. Try to display it with "gv <filename> &" when it is not
plain text. Does it display correctly? If the lines go very close to the
border, it can be that they get out of the printable area of your
printers. Try whether one can adjust the borders anywhere in K-Mail.
If the file is plain text, use "xpp" as printing command in K-Mail and
not "lpr". When the dialog of XPP pops up, choose the desired printer,
click on "Options" and in the dialog popping up now on the "Text" tab.
Adjust the sliders for the width of the borders to have a little wider
borders, click on "Save options" and print again. If all the text
appears, it will now appear every time (because you have saved the
options), if not, make the borders wider and try again. You have to
repeat this procedure for all your printers, because the options are
saved seperately for every printer.
The problem is the following. Your printers are compatible to some
"original" printers and therefore do not have their own drivers. You use
the drivers of the "original" printers. Though the language of your
printers is absolutely compatible to the "originals", the printable area
of your printers is smaller than the one of the "original" printers. The
drivers always have the printable area of the "original" printer as
default area. So for clones you have often to adjust the borders for
printing text files. And in contrary to the old LPD one can do this
adjustment easily in CUPS.
Till
Franco Silvestro wrote:
>
> I haven't problem to print with cups with Netscape, Cooledit.... on a lan
> printer DecLN17ps (A4 paper) and also on local printer Tally T7040
> (configured as hpdeskjet500) but with Kmail left side of message is cut away
> Is a bug in kmail or I need to configure more cups ??
>
> Thanks...;o)
>
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> Franco Silvestro
> c/o CeSIA - Universita' degli Studi di Bologna
