I have an HP 1100 laser printer. Until now, I have never tried to print a legal sized page.
In Ghostview, I selected my hp1100, I chose usLegal. The preview was perfect. The bottom of the printout was perfect *if* I cut of the bottom of the legal paper to make it usLetter. On a whim I decided to switch the setting back to usLetter and printed that. Same result.
I recall Carl (IIRC) mentioning (when I was having A4 vs usLetter woes) saying that the printer receives the data, builds the image, puts the bottom of that image where it thinks the bottom of the paper is, and then prints. When my computer (fc4 at that time) was transfixed on A4, and my printer was printing usLetter, this always resulted in a blank page in addition to the actual page. But here, no second page. All I see is the bottom usLetter sized portion of my usLegal sized printout.
Is there a way to get my printer to trust my computer as to whether the paper is usLetter or usLegal? Short of that, is there a way to change my printer's setting (temporarily) to usLegal?
The only button it has for a user is the one that when pushed and released will give a status page and when held for more than a couple of seconds will do a reset.
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