Re: printout being chopped off...
Subject: Re: printout being chopped off... Date: Wed, May 12, 1999 at 10:00:10AM -0700 In reply to:Sudhakar Chandrasekharan Quoting Sudhakar Chandrasekharan([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Wayne Topa proclaimed: I had a similar problem with my Brother Laser Printer. I finally fixed it by using a2ps and changing the papersize in a2ps.cfg ie Medium: Letter 607 780. I just keep changing it until I got everything printing on the paper, correctly. Could you give me more information? How does a2ps work with apsfilter and gs? Don't use apsfilter but I use it with everything else. Netscape, gv, etc. I have a2ps defaulted to 2 pages/sheet. That works nice in Netscape (change print box Printer: from lpr to a2ps) and you can print 2 pages in landscape, side by side or 2 pages one over the other in Portrait mode. I have a script that uses a2ps or enscript + psresize + psselect + psnup to print files as 1/2/4 pages on one or both sides. I do .ps and .pdf files from gv like that also. i haven't put that into the script yet tho. BTW altho I have a2ps defaulted to 2 pages per sheet if you want one page (or 3 or 4), the command is a2ps -[1-4] overrides the default. a2ps also handles files that have different extensions, ie gzip,gz, bz2, bz and more. I found a bug in the sheets.map file in the a2ps.deb file supplied with Slink. I notified the maintainer but never heard from him and don't know if the file has been updated or not. I have Version 4.10.4-4 installed. If anyone needs the updated sheets.map file, I will email it on request. The bug shows up when you try to print a gzipped file, it doesn't print. HTH -- Real computer scientists don't program in assembler. They don't write in anything less portable than a number two pencil. ___ Wayne T. Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: printout being chopped off...
Subject: printout being chopped off... Date: Tue, May 11, 1999 at 11:06:09AM -0700 In reply to:Sudhakar Chandrasekharan Quoting Sudhakar Chandrasekharan([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi, I have an Epson Color Stylus 640. When I print 2-uped pages, a bit of the page (on the left hand side) gets chopped off. I am printing to 'letter' paper. Here is what I tried: * Installed slink's lprng, gs (not gs-alladin), enscript, psutils and magicfilter. * Ran /usr/sbin/magicfilterconfig and chose stylus800, stylus_color_360dpi and stylus_color_720dpi as filters. * When I print from Netscape Communicator using lpr -Pprinter_name, the output is fine. * When I try to use print from Netscape Communicator using 'psnup -c -Pletter -n 2 | lpr -Pprinter_name' I see that a little bit (about 2 characters) gets chopped off on the left hand side (when seen length-wise). It is not that the printed area bleeds off the end of the paper. There is a definite non-printable border. It is at the edge of the border and the printable area that the bleed occurs. * Tried printing from command line using 'enscript -2r -G -Mletter -Pprinter_name foo.txt'. Same problem. * Installed lprng, enscript and psutils from slink. Installed gs-aladdin and apsfilter from potato. * Configured apsfilter for uniprint driver for Epson Color Stylus 600. * Tried printing with psnup and enscript. Same problem as before. I guess I need to somehow change the printable area parameter for papersize letter. How do I do this in a system-wide way? Thanks. I had a similar problem with my Brother Laser Printer. I finally fixed it by using a2ps and changing the papersize in a2ps.cfg ie Medium: Letter 607 780. I just keep changing it until I got everything printing on the paper, correctly. HTH -- User n.: A programmer who will believe anything you tell him. ___ Wayne T. Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: printout being chopped off...
On Tue, 11 May 1999, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: Hi, I have an Epson Color Stylus 640. When I print 2-uped pages, a bit of the page (on the left hand side) gets chopped off. I am printing to 'letter' paper. Hi, I had similar problems with this printer and the bellow link led me to a very useful page with tons of info about Epson printers: http://www.eunuchs.org/linux Take a look. It's cool! []s, Mario O.de MenezesMany are the plans in a man's heart, but IPEN-CNEN/SP is the Lord's purpose that prevails http://curiango.ipen.br/~mario Prov. 19.21
Re: printout being chopped off...
Mario Olimpio de Menezes proclaimed: I had similar problems with this printer and the bellow link led me to a very useful page with tons of info about Epson printers: http://www.eunuchs.org/linux Thanks. I took a look at the page. But the things suggested in that page did not fix my problems. I have partially fixed the problem I was having. I edited /etc/enscript.cfg and used the dimensions specified against letterdj for letter. Now enscripts prints fine. Thaths -- Son, this is the only time I'm ever going to say this. It is not OK to loose. -- Homer J. Simpson Sudhakar C13n http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ Indentured Slave
Re: printout being chopped off...
Wayne Topa proclaimed: I had a similar problem with my Brother Laser Printer. I finally fixed it by using a2ps and changing the papersize in a2ps.cfg ie Medium: Letter 607 780. I just keep changing it until I got everything printing on the paper, correctly. Could you give me more information? How does a2ps work with apsfilter and gs? Thaths -- Son, this is the only time I'm ever going to say this. It is not OK to loose. -- Homer J. Simpson Sudhakar C13n http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ Indentured Slave
printout being chopped off...
Hi, I have an Epson Color Stylus 640. When I print 2-uped pages, a bit of the page (on the left hand side) gets chopped off. I am printing to 'letter' paper. Here is what I tried: * Installed slink's lprng, gs (not gs-alladin), enscript, psutils and magicfilter. * Ran /usr/sbin/magicfilterconfig and chose stylus800, stylus_color_360dpi and stylus_color_720dpi as filters. * When I print from Netscape Communicator using lpr -Pprinter_name, the output is fine. * When I try to use print from Netscape Communicator using 'psnup -c -Pletter -n 2 | lpr -Pprinter_name' I see that a little bit (about 2 characters) gets chopped off on the left hand side (when seen length-wise). It is not that the printed area bleeds off the end of the paper. There is a definite non-printable border. It is at the edge of the border and the printable area that the bleed occurs. * Tried printing from command line using 'enscript -2r -G -Mletter -Pprinter_name foo.txt'. Same problem. * Installed lprng, enscript and psutils from slink. Installed gs-aladdin and apsfilter from potato. * Configured apsfilter for uniprint driver for Epson Color Stylus 600. * Tried printing with psnup and enscript. Same problem as before. I guess I need to somehow change the printable area parameter for papersize letter. How do I do this in a system-wide way? Thanks. Thaths PS: Would appreciate it if you Cc-ed me on your replies to this thread. -- Marge: Homer, can't we pawn my engagement ring instead? Homer: Now, I appreciate that, honey, but we need hundred and fifty dollars here. Sudhakar C13n http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ Indentured Slave
Re: printout being chopped off...
Hi Sudhakar, Maybe you should consult the manual of your printer. Every printer has a printable area, and you should check if you want to print outside the border your hardware sets (therefore: software upgrade will not work?). Read the fine manual. Alex. I have an Epson Color Stylus 640. When I print 2-uped pages, a bit of the page (on the left hand side) gets chopped off. I am printing to 'letter' paper. I guess I need to somehow change the printable area parameter for papersize letter. How do I do this in a system-wide way? -- Alexander Schwartz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/alex_schwartz
