On 29 September 2011 11:42, Barry <[email protected]> wrote: > A short time ago I did some printing on A6 size paper. Now using xpp > some of my printing gets cropped to A6 size & prints in the centre of an > A4 sheet. > > I have tried recalibrating printer both from printer controls and > hp-toolbox, altering the size of the A6 docs and reprinting them, Switch > of & restart printer, tear hair out! etc to no avail. Appears to be ok > from OOwriter but not for some jpegs using xpp > > All ideas welcome
Does the printer support the level of PostScript you are sending it? Have you got the latest versions of Ghostscript and CUPS installed? Ghostscript 9.04 Cups-1.5.0 ( IMPORTANT!! ) Get hands dirty:- First turn off the printer, and at the mains. Turn back on after having consumed a cup of your favourite beverage. Use the buttons on the printer to reset it. Now for the tests:- Does the test-page internal to the printer print correctly? Does the test-page generated by CUPS print correctly? Does a known good standard coloured picture file print correctly? I'd suggest one of the images which is distributed with ghostscript. http://svn.ghostscript.com/viewvc/trunk/gs/examples/ a) As the root user, using the unix cat command direct to the printer? ( you may have to first load the usblp kernel module while the printer is connected ) b) Via Ghostscript and CUPS? That'll do for a start. :-) -- Sincerely, Christopher Sawtell
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