Dave, thanks for adjusting the bug status. Regrettably I am unable to test with HP printers locally. One of the reasons we switched to Brother was their support for Linux. We use both the HL-5370DW for business printing, albeit with several different custom sizes, and the MFC-6490CW for colour architectural prints up to 11"x17". However, the Brother Linux drivers havn't changed since 2009, and so I should think that it is something upstream that changed. The best that I can guess is that stock page size, i.e., US Letter, is somehow overriding the custom page directive from lp, and then too, the offsets are being incorrectly calculated.
I will do my best to find a test bed for an HP printer, and report back. As you can probably surmise from my past bug reports all relating to custom page sizes breaking in new releases, it would be great if we might include this as part of the general test suite for cups even keeping in mind the changes that I am hearing about in version 1.6? Regards. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to cups in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1024578 Title: Problem printing custom page sizes with lp after upgrading to 12.04 Status in “cups” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I have a workflow generating PDFs using LaTeX and ConTeXt on custom pages sizes. For instance I will print index cards, personal and corporate cheques, etc. The printers in question (right now) are a Brother HL-5370DW and a Brother MFC-6490CW, but in the past have been various HP laser printers. This workflow has been stable through several recent versions of Ubuntu. Upon upgrading to 12.04, the workflow has broken for me. Initially, I reported this to Linux Support at Brother, but they have thrown it back saying that it isn't their issue. For instance, on initial upgrade I faced this issue: http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/faq_prn.html#f00110 However, this was resolved on my installation by updating my installation. I was using Avery labels and printing them via an MS- Office document from within LibreOffice. This had worked for years. I am enclosing with this report a (sample) personal cheque, and because I am only allowed a single attachment, in a follow-up a sample outline set on an index card, which exhibit slightly different behaviour. SAMPLE PERSONAL CHEQUE: The command I have used to date to print this is: lp -o media=letter -o PageSize=Custom.2.75x6.25in -o landscape The expected behaviour is that a cheque fed through with the guide arms brought in will be printed as a centre fed page with the printing starting at the leading edge of the page. The behaviour that I am now getting is that printing is centred on a letter-sized page. It makes no difference if I remove the 'media=letter' option. INDEX CARD: The command I have used to date to print this is: lp -o media=letter -o PageSize=Custom.3.0x5.0in -o portrait The expected behaviour is that a cheque fed through with the guide arms brought in will be printed as a centre fed page with the printing starting at the leading edge of the page. The behaviour that I am now getting is that printing is done on the bottom left hand side of the a letter-sized page. Again, it makes no difference if I remove the 'media=letter' option. Any help would be most appreciated. advTHANKSance. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/1024578/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
