On 6/27/07, Ralph Shumaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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.
CUPS will let you reconfigure the printer to use a different paper
size. Point your web browser to localhost:631 and look for Manage
Printers.
"Print through an external program" sounds like an invitation to use kprinter.
carl
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