On 11 Mar 2006, at 15:53, Dean McCorquodale wrote: > What breed of printer.
Laserjet 5SiMx. Hewlett Packard sold several billions of these things. OK, that was an exaggeration. But they are extremely common as workgroup printers in corporate offices. In fact, it would not surprise me if it was in the top five in total number of printers sold in all history of laser printing. That's why I am surprised that Linux has problems printing to it. > Does cups allow requested page size? 11x17 is not listed anywhere in CUPS or in any Scribus print dialog box. And both CUPS and the Scribus paper size box list all kinds of sizes and dimensions that I have never heard of, and which are not supported by this printer. (It does just US letter, legal, 11x17 and European A3 and A4, plus various envelope sizes.) If I print from OO.o I get a proper listing of paper sizes. > Trying different printer driver may help. There is only one driver available for this printer. It is a genuine Adobe PostScript level 2 printer. The PPD file is properly installed (as far as I know). Thanks for the suggestions.
