Package: printer-driver-ptouch Version: 1.3-3ubuntu0.1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream patch
Dear Maintainer, We have a PT9500PC and a PT9800PCN which is compatible to the PT9500PC (confirmed by Brother). Both printers produce additional margins at the left and right side of each printed label. These margins are completely unrelated to the margins set using the CUPS options, therefore this actually resulted in a label which is slightly larger than the specified page size. Finally I figured out that setting the margin to zero using the documented ESC-sequence solved that problem (see the attached patch). -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers precise-updates APT policy: (500, 'precise-updates'), (500, 'precise-security'), (500, 'precise-proposed'), (500, 'precise'), (100, 'precise-backports') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-26-generic-pae (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_CH.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_CH.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages printer-driver-ptouch depends on: ii ghostscript 9.05~dfsg-0ubuntu4 ii libc6 2.15-0ubuntu10 ii libcups2 1.5.3-0ubuntu1 ii libcupsimage2 1.5.3-0ubuntu1 ii python 2.7.3-0ubuntu2 ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20110809-3 printer-driver-ptouch recommends no packages. printer-driver-ptouch suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
Description: Set margin to zero PT9500PC produces an annoying margin left and right of each label. Setting the margin to zero using the documented ESC-sequnce fixed this behaviour. Attention: Not tested on other printers. Author: Dominik Wild <d.w...@glutz.com> --- ptouch-driver-1.3.orig/rastertoptch.c +++ ptouch-driver-1.3/rastertoptch.c @@ -820,7 +820,9 @@ emit_page_cmds (job_options_t* job_optio emit_quality_rollfed_size (job_options, new_page_options, page_size_y, image_height_px); - /* WHY DON'T WE SET MARGIN (ESC i d ...)? */ + /* Set zero margin */ + putchar (ESC); putchar (0x69); putchar (0x64); + putchar (0x00); putchar (0x00); /* Set pixel data transfer compression */ if (force) {