Carl Lowenstein wrote:
On 6/26/07, Ralph Shumaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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
(meaning the printer)
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.
Select "kprinter" as the printer to use in Ghostview? In the Print
Document popup window, enter kprinter instead of lpr. Then you get
the kprinter dialog which has a "Printer Properties" selection. One
of the things you can change is "Page size".
The default is CUPS. And lpr is mentioned as one of the alternatives,
but not kprinter:
CUPS (Common UNIX Printing System)
Print Through an External Program (generic)
Gereric UNIX LPD Print System (default)
LPR/LPRng Print System
RLPR Environment (Remote LPD Servers)
Hmmm. I guess I was wrong. Apparently the "default" is the third item
even though the pop-up print dialog says "Print system currently used:
CUPS ..."
Anyway, I don't see kprinter.
I don't know if this actually works, since I don't have any Legal-size
paper to try it with, but it seems plausible. Kprinter does send the
codes to the printer to make it do other things.
carl
Hmmm. The only one I tested with was CUPS. I'll try the other 4 and
see what I get.
Thanks carl.
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