After seeing seveal times about printing issues and Evolution I decided to find a solution to the issue. I worked over the weekend and figured I would post my notes.
Setup: SuSE 9.0, KDE 3.1, Evolution 1.4, CUPS, HP Jetdirect Print servers, Issue: Evolution would only print A4 paper size and though you would tell KDE that it was to use "US Letter" Evolution would still default to A4. This meant that EVERY print would require a manual change of the paper type to "Letter" from A4. The result would be that the job would enter into the buffer of the printer and then disapear. Cause: The issue (at least in my case) was that the print driver specific to the print device was defaulting to A4. KDE was passing the data to CUPS. CUPS was relying on the print driver to format the page definitions. Solution: 1) CUPS has changed security settings and so you have to open up rights to allow the ability change print driver settings. (Per googled conversation -> http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2004-Mar/3240.html 2) Open "Print Manager" ('Menu'->Utilities->Printing). Select your printer. Select "Properties" tab. Select the "Driver" Icon. Click the "Change" button. Assuming you have the correct printer selected click "Next". Their will be two options "Test" and "Settings". Select "Settings" and all the avalable options for that printer type will become available (ie. in the case of my HP4050 I had duplex, toner settings, etc...) Their will be a section called "General" in which you will see the page size as "A4". Click on it and select "Letter". Select "OK" and "Finish". (if you get prompted for a password see 1) for details.) 3) I restarted CUPS ('/etc/rc.d/cups restart') and Evolution. Printing now defaults to Letter. -- Hope this helps others, Jeremey Wise _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution