On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 2:47 PM, James M Pulver <[email protected]> wrote: > We've got a Brother MFC-j5910 which is working great networked via the > brother LPD and CUPS driver, except if you want to print 11x17 / Tabloid. The > printer for some reason doesn't support that, and instead supports the less > common 17x11 / Ledger format. If I use a program that allows you to set a > CUSTOM paper size of 17x11, it prints as expected (well, not really, I have > to still change to landscape when it should be portrait for that size > configuration)... The issue I have is, on Windows computers using the > standard CUPS drivers shared over SAMBA, I can't select a custom paper size > (and most users on Linux expect to use Tabloid, not a custom paper size)... > > Any ideas what I should do here? CUPS is on a SL5 server.
Set an alternative printer configuration with the different page size in CUPS. This is what I used to do to get double-sided printing for Samba users.
