Having kind of this issue on my Ubuntu Xenial (16.04) with Brother MFC Laser-Printer. The printer worked fine on the same system for over 1 year and suddenly every(!) custom settings from GUI printing dialog was ignored. I need papersize A4 but always got letter format.
The only workaround I found was to set A4 hard-coded in default PPA file. But since today I can't switch dublex-printing or switch from color-printing (default) to black and white! Very annoying and I don't know what may have changed between once working and stopped ignoring my custom printing settings for a new printing-job. In my case there already is '/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstopdf'. Reinstalling the packages 'cups-filters cups-filters-core-drivers' didn't help. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to cups in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/357732 Title: cups always prints with the default page size Status in GS-GPL: Invalid Status in cups package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in ghostscript package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in cups source package in Intrepid: Invalid Status in ghostscript source package in Intrepid: Invalid Status in cups source package in Jaunty: Fix Released Status in ghostscript source package in Jaunty: Invalid Bug description: After the upgrade to Jaunty some users experience that a part of the page is cut when printing, or other kinds of misalignment. (A fix is available, see below) Details: Cups does not print in any other page size than the one set in /etc/papersize, if the requested page size is specified as a job option rather than within the PS file. Pages are passed through "gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite ..." which sets the page size to the default page size. Yet, I don't know whether this is a bug in ghostscript or the intended behavior of ghostscript and a bug in cups. Since the upgrade to Jauny beta, I experienced that evince would shift a document up when printing. It is reproducible. I print in A4 on a Canon IR3170Ci. The printed output is translated up. The upper part of the contents in not visible. I also tried another printer driver (hpijs instead of post-script) and did not observe any improvement. Changing /etc/papersize from letter to a4 allows me to print in a4. Printing from evince also working fine in intrepid. To reproduce the bug: lpr -omedia=A3 testpage.ps There should not be a problem if the postscript file itself requests a page size. FIX: # (For simplicity, just paste this section to a terminal.) # Download the attached pstopdf and install it in /usr/lib/cups/filter/ cd /tmp wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25537150/pstopdf sudo cp pstopdf /usr/lib/cups/filter/ # Then change the permissions of the installed file: sudo chmod ugo+rx /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstopdf # that's all. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gs-gpl/+bug/357732/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
