On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 10:42 PM, Chris Knadle <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Wednesday, January 30, 2013 21:00:08, Jack Chastain wrote: > > > I have been fighting with my Canon i9900 and Ubuntu > > (snip) > Something to note: there is typically a system-wide default paper size at > /etc/papersize. "letter" is the standard in the U.S., 8.5x11 inches -- > but in > Europe the standard paper size is "A4", 210mm x 297mm. "letter" paper is > 4.1mm wider and 19.6mm shorter than A4. > > Ah - this could be interesting. I will have to check it later, I am in at work now with the Ubuntu system sitll at home. I will check this when I get back. > Even if all of the printer settings are set for "letter", you can still > end up > having problems because OpenOffice/LibreOffice commonly defaults to "A4" > paper > size for new documents. One nice feature of the HP JetDirect print servers > (at least for the models I've seen) is that they have a setting available > to > automatically convert prints to A4 paper to "letter" size. > I haven't yet tried to print from OpenOffice really - only noticed that printing things like receipts from web pages and such were not printing the right edge, so I went looking and found even the test page from the driver section was doing it. I presume LibreOffice will as well - so I am looking forward to finding out what that papersize file has in it. > > ... > > Any thoughts? Any further info needed to give any thoughts? Am I just > faced > > with booting back into M$ when I want to print anything I need to keep? > > I consider print services to be sysadmin hell. It seems like it should be > simple, but when it doesn't work correctly I find it's quite difficult to > debug. > > -- Chris > > Truer words and all that. I have nearly always disliked printer bits as much as mail bits. Odd since I used to do rather detailed printer control work (back when PCL-5 was "normal" - heck, I even had the manual on that.) and it never bothered me much. It's all this "integration" stuff that has sent everything spinning out of control ;-) JC -- Eschew obfuscation and pompous prolixity. Light a man a fire, he is warm for the night. Light a man afire, he is warm for the rest of his life.
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