Please update the following:
defaults for the ML-1210 Samsung, using "gdi" are as follows (only
things that print on the align.ps that is now on linuxprinting.org that
had to be altered to get mine working, 350 pages later are shown, other
variables correct).
MFR says:
ml 12.02
mb 12.02
mr 12.02
mt 12.02
and with this the random locks that require a service -f cups and a hard
printer power cycle to overcome disappear, but:
printing anything piped to lpr in console prints shifted left by a
bunch-- I used man pages to get the left alignment approximate,
alternating with the alignmargins script you posted on
linuxprinting.org. (downloaded 30.12.2002), and had the following m
variables when I called it quits:
Margins (x,y) -79.01, -77.01
ml-mt Same as mfr above.
This yields perfect positioning from anything in X\KDE and a slight 1\2
char dropout on left side of any man page for the outdented header and
subheader lines only. The rules show I am getting an effective 600x780
printout area on page with all margins (physical print area) varying
from each other less than 1\64th" and the rotational skew is zero this
way. I have the bottom arrows not quite square to bottom of printed
corners, and the scale says the bottom printed edge would be _below
bottom_ of my physical US letter pages (which are physically 21.75 cm by
28.00 cm) by .2 cm if the margin of physical print at bottom were not
.5cm or about 5\64". Was this align.ps calibrated for an A4 page of
paper??? Or a Legal size piece of paper???? current calibration needs to
be worked on. I was calibrating at 600x600, which is highest density
this printer can handle. hookup of the Samsung ML-1210 was to /dev/lp0
and not /dev/usb/lp0 or lp1 (my Stylus likes /devusb/lp0 adn cUPS and
lpr go nuts when two drivers are hooked to same physical port driver, so
the stylus gets the usb so I can use a 2 M long cable with it-- the
Samsung is about 2.75 M away from main computer box location, so am
using an IEEE1284 ~3 M (10 feet) with the Samsung that is a Belkin
twisted pair solution for low signal loss)
This page also printed this tall on my Epson stylus C80, so either we
have a tib of vertical height exaggeration to deal with or the align.ps
page is too high by a tib (my Stylus just used a zero top edge margin,
it can print topedge-to-bottomedge under right circumstances (1440x720,
but not highest quality submode).
With the default settings of all zeros for the margins as given in the
included-with-MDK 9.0 ppd for this printer, the align.ps prints exactly
once with the output rotated about 5 degrees clockwise before the
printer locks(lock solution-- reboot or restart cups AFTER power cycling
printer(I finally copied the mfr's ppd from the mfr's driver CD to the
HD, and renamed it Printer.ppd) as this is my default printer. BTW, I
had to copy align.ps to the same directory as alignmargins to get
alignmargins to run, the line that included Find "aelign.ps"(the ae was
a Latin special character ae) needless to say did not work at all until
modified to find "align.ps" with the file to be found in the same
directory as alignmargins. (/usr/sbin is where old one was, new one got
stuck in after old one got mv'd to be oldalign).
If this is the wrong place for this, let me know what email you want it
sent to, OK? i figured this needed some rebrewing....
Nicely done other than vertical aspect of align.ps and also the ML-1210
stock base specs.
John Danielson.
