thanks! so u don’t think its something that we setup in our ppd that makes the printing system think otherwise? in this 6x9 printer - ppd shows pages sizes of 5x3.5 6x4 5x7 6x8 6x9
this issue with “other” has been around since 10.9 days… thanks! On Oct 5, 2015, at 2:06:44 PM, Michael Sweet <[email protected]> wrote: > Steve, > > Please file a bug; if the printer does not support the system-wide default > size it should be using the default in the PPD. > > >> On Oct 5, 2015, at 3:06 PM, [email protected] wrote: >> >> hi - >> >> we have never been able to solve our issue with setting the default page >> size in the print dialog. >> >> if we were to create a new printer queue >> >> if we go the cups admin page for that new queue - we can see the default >> page size is set correctly - i.e. 6x4 >> even though our printers supports physical media up to 6x9 - we wanted the >> default size to be 6x4 >> and it shows correctly in the admin page >> and if we were to use the lp command or drop image to the queue - it will >> print the 6x4 correctly with the expected 6x4 crop of the photo >> printing out a 6x4 size cut media (the 6x9 media can print and cut to 6x4 >> size) >> >> however, with the Print Dialog - say in Preview.app >> the Paper Size always seem to show up initially at “other” and details that >> it is the US Letter size dimensions >> which happens to be default paper size option in the system preferences >> Printer & Scanner panel >> and if i were to change it to US Legal size in the Printer&Scanner pref >> panel >> the Print Dialog will show “other” and this time details show the US Legal >> size dimensions >> >> is there a way to make the Print Dialog show the Default Paper Size for the >> selected printer model in the Print Dialog? >> >> is there something we are not doing in our PPD that can override this >> behavior? >> >> Thanks! >> >> steve >> _______________________________________________ >> Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. >> Printing mailing list ([email protected]) >> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: >> https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/printing/msweet%40apple.com >> >> This email sent to [email protected] > > _________________________________________________________ > Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair > _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Printing mailing list ([email protected]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/printing/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
