[Wylug-discuss] RE: CUPS -aarrrgggg + hp-ijs

[Roger Leigh]

Dave Fisher <davef at gbdirect.co.uk> writes:

> Despite occasional glitches (mainly due to python/foomatic debian
> package problems) I've had CUPS working OKish for about 6 months on an
> HP  PSC 2110 (Scanner + Printer) using HP-PSC_2110-hpijs.ppd  ... thanks
> in no small part to your earlier advice.
>
> Unfortunately through a mixture of frustration and lazinesss, I've never
> got round to fixing my one outstanding problem: the bottom/left
> (portrait/landscape) margin gets cut off when I try to print close to
> the edges of a4 paper, e.g. test pages or 2-up pages produced by a2ps.
>
> linuxprinting.org has one of those oh-so-helpful FAQs which identifies
> this problem, but provides no answer or explanation of any kind:
>
>   http://www.linuxprinting.org/hp-faq.html#q_40_4
>
> I am guessing that the printer is trying to print outside of the
> printable area on this one side (the trailing edge as the sheet is fed
> in).  Is this a likely explanation?

Quite possible.  If you print the CUPS test page either from the web
admin thing or /usr/share/cups/data/testprint.ps, this will show the
"imagable area" as a black border.  If the black border is partly
missing, this information is incorrect.

> I presume that there must be some way of getting CUPS to tell the
> printer to set the boundary for the printable area about 1 cm higher up
> than it seems to think it is.  If so, can you point me to some useful
> documentation?

The simple fix (as already suggested) would be to edit the PPD under
/etc/cups/ppd/$queue.  All the units are pspoints, and you can
manually measure the dimensions with a ruler if needed (I've done this
for a dot-matrix printer using 11"x8.5" fan feed paper which wasn't
supported by the driver).


Regards,
Roger

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