The default installation of SuSE printers uses A4 paper, which will cause your printer to hang up. It happened to me and it took a while to figure out what was going on. CUPS also has to be told (separately, I think) what the
On Saturday 29 April 2006 1:56 am, Clayton wrote: paper
size is. For Americans, it should be letter size. The setting is in the filter parameters of the printer.
Well..... A4 is the international ISO stadard for paper size. Now you know the frustration for 5 billion other people on earth who try to use pretty much any software/OS that defaults to US Letter..
If only standards were... standards.
The answer is probably not to have a default on paper size -- or even better yet, let the default paper size be a system parameter that the user can set. The problem with that, of course, is propagating the information to the places that need it. Paul