dick hoogendijk wrote:
> Uwe Dippel wrote:
>
>> Each, all and any. Again, testpage of printer-admin is 100%, so is the
>> Staroffice testpage.
>> Print this page from Firefox, and the upper lines will be missing, like
>> header. But make sure, to have the printer and system set to A4! Convert
>> any document from Staroffice to PDF (A4), and it will miss the upper part.
>>
>
> On solaris, printing to A4 sucks for quite some time now. It used to work
> very well, but it changed one day and I don't have a clue when exactly
> this happened. I -DO- know that older A4 manuscripts that used to print
> very well, no longer do. The -FIRST- page comes out fine, the second and
> later pages all are set way to high on the A4 printpage. This happens in
> StarOffice (v8) docs.
The application is probably set to letter rather than A4. Staroffice
can change that page setup.
> So, what I have to do is save every multipage
> StarOfffice document as PDF and print that one. This does work.
> On nevada-b.107/sxce I can print with evince OK. On solaris-10 I have to
> use kpdf (from kde) to get a good printout from the pdf file.
>
> All in all printing is not good on solaris. This is with the default
> printing suystem, so no cups involved. Maybe I must change to cups?
> I also have to say that all printing actually is done on the S10 server,
> which has a HP-Laserjet connected. I have no idea how good CUPS for
> soalris-10 is. Any ideas?
>
You should change your print server to OpenSolaris. Printing is
generally better than Solaris 10.
CUPS version is much newer in OpenSolaris that Solaris 10 as it does not
has supported version of CUPS.
It only comes on the companion CD.
-Ghee
