On Wednesday, January 30, 2013 21:00:08, Jack Chastain wrote: > Greetings > > I have been fighting with my Canon i9900 and Ubuntu - I know Canon does not > list drivers for the printer and that one of the other drivers (BJC-8500 > apparently) may work, but before we go there....
I a had a peek at the drivers I have available in CUPS (on Debian Unstable) and I see a driver for a Cannon "9900i" as well as "i9900". Some printer manufacturers don't follow their own damn naming conventions. > I have checked my printer settings in the "System Settings/ Printers" and > apparently, the system is adequately detecting that I do have an i9900, the > printer does print and it even looks like it will do so decently. > > If I can figure out why it is apparently thinking my paper is larger than > it is. Something to note: there is typically a system-wide default paper size at /etc/papersize. "letter" is the standard in the U.S., 8.5x11 inches -- but in Europe the standard paper size is "A4", 210mm x 297mm. "letter" paper is 4.1mm wider and 19.6mm shorter than A4. Even if all of the printer settings are set for "letter", you can still end up having problems because OpenOffice/LibreOffice commonly defaults to "A4" paper size for new documents. One nice feature of the HP JetDirect print servers (at least for the models I've seen) is that they have a setting available to automatically convert prints to A4 paper to "letter" size. ... > Any thoughts? Any further info needed to give any thoughts? Am I just faced > with booting back into M$ when I want to print anything I need to keep? I consider print services to be sysadmin hell. It seems like it should be simple, but when it doesn't work correctly I find it's quite difficult to debug. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [email protected] _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College Feb 6 - Raspberry Pi Mar 6 - 10th Anniversary Meeting - Linux where you least expect it Apr 3 - Typography: Physical Art to Digital Art
