On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 04:39:56PM -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote: <snip>
At 13:11 10/20/2001 +0000, Martin Webster wrote:
On Saturday 20 October 2001 12:51 am, Glenn Williams wrote:
On Friday 19 October 2001 11:12, you wrote:
can someone tell me what i should do to change the behavior of my printing. i am printing to an Epson 740 printer, and it chops off the top and the bottom of the page. Also sometimes the right margin chops off the printing too. /snip all the rest/
Hello, I have an Epson 740 and I have it working fine, but I did some fiddling. I use A4 paper size, be forewarned (this is Europe!). Printing to it using straight lpr from netscape or staroffice works fine after installing it with yast2. The chopping off of the last line is warned about in the test page itself. For printing from a console i have a couple of shell scripts, the contents of which I will show you. This is for printing text files. # print # if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then pr | a2ps -M A4dj --columns=1 --border=no -B -R -L 66 else while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do pr $1 | a2ps -M A4dj --columns=1 --border=no -B -R -L 66 shift done fi # End of print This is a special one for printing manual pages # print a manual page # [ $# -lt 1 ] && { echo "Usage: printman man-page [a2ps-options]"; exit 1; } MANPAGE=$1; shift man $MANPAGE | a2ps -M A4dj -m -R --columns=1 --border=no -B $@ # End of printman These are somewhat legacy, since lpr was hopeless with my printer setup in 7.0 (7.1) ... whatever it was it seemed to have got cured in 7.2. Strictly speaking they should not be necessary. There are also some articles on Epson 740 setup in the SDB. It breaks with every new release of Suse, and has to be re-installed. -- Regards Cliff