KDE 3.0.4 printing top margin on US/Letter
Hello all... Since setting up printing on SuSE 8.0 with KDE 3.0.4 and CUPS to a networked HP 4100, it insists on printing with the top of the "printed page" off the physical page. This happens printing out docs from kmail, and Konqueror, and probably other KDE apps as well. I've tried adjusting the margins through the YAST CUPS setup, hand editting /etc/cups/ppd/lp.ppd, searching through google, linuxprinting.org, and everything else I can think of. I'm _not_ a newbie, but this is my first try using CUPS, although I'm not sure if CUPS is the problem or not. The YAST sample page comes out ok. Could some kind person please help me? If there is more info that I can give, I'd be glad to. Thanks! -Nick
On Fri, 15 Nov 2002 03:16 am, Nick LeRoy wrote:
Hello all...
Since setting up printing on SuSE 8.0 with KDE 3.0.4 and CUPS to a networked HP 4100, it insists on printing with the top of the "printed page" off the physical page. This happens printing out docs from kmail, and Konqueror, and probably other KDE apps as well. I've tried adjusting the margins through the YAST CUPS setup, hand editting /etc/cups/ppd/lp.ppd, searching through google, linuxprinting.org, and everything else I can think of. I'm _not_ a newbie, but this is my first try using CUPS, although I'm not sure if CUPS is the problem or not. The YAST sample page comes out ok.
Could some kind person please help me? If there is more info that I can give, I'd be glad to.
Thanks!
-Nick
Hi Nick, I've never had your problem with CUPS and have been using it extensively at work and home since it first became available. The only thing I can offer is some general observations. When configuring a printer on the cups server you will find there usually is a number of drivers available for the one printer. Some of these really stuff up and should never be associated with that printer model. The other thing to try is configuring thru a browser. http://localhost:631 it is the original way of configuring CUPS and quite often works better than the alternatives. Sorry I can't offer you more help. Regards, Graham Smith ---------------------------------------------------------
On Fri, 15 Nov 2002 23:35:19 +1100 Graham Smith <gqs@goanna.net.au> wrote:
On Fri, 15 Nov 2002 03:16 am, Nick LeRoy wrote:
Hello all...
Since setting up printing on SuSE 8.0 with KDE 3.0.4 and CUPS to a networked HP 4100, it insists on printing with the top of the "printed page" off the physical page. This happens printing out docs from kmail, and Konqueror, and probably other KDE apps as well. I've tried adjusting the margins through the YAST CUPS setup, hand editting /etc/cups/ppd/lp.ppd, searching through google, linuxprinting.org, and everything else I can think of. I'm _not_ a newbie, but this is my first try using CUPS, although I'm not sure if CUPS is the problem or not. The YAST sample page comes out ok.
Could some kind person please help me? If there is more info that I can give, I'd be glad to. -Nick
Hi Nick, The other thing to try is configuring thru a browser. http://localhost:631 it is the original way of configuring CUPS and quite often works better than the alternatives.
You can also try the gtklp program for cups, it sets the margins, etc. But I don't know if it will fix it from Konqueror. http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/~sirtobi/gtklp/ -- use Perl; #powerful programmable prestidigitation
On Friday 15 November 2002 6:35 am, Graham Smith wrote:
I've never had your problem with CUPS and have been using it extensively at work and home since it first became available. The only thing I can offer is some general observations.
When configuring a printer on the cups server you will find there usually is a number of drivers available for the one printer. Some of these really stuff up and should never be associated with that printer model.
The other thing to try is configuring thru a browser. http://localhost:631 it is the original way of configuring CUPS and quite often works better than the alternatives.
Ok, I wasn't aware of this. I don't see a place to set the top margin in here, but I don't think that it'd help anyway. The test page for it prints just fine. Because of this, I'm becoming convinced that this is a KDE problem, not a CUPS problem. Also, if I print from, say, Mozilla, it comes out fine. So, I have a question for the group. In the KDE world, what generates the postscript? Is this logic in the KDE/QT software (my understanding, but it could be wrong), or does CUPS do this? In other words, when I print a job through Konqueror, it's PS data that's put in the queue, which is then raterized either by a CUPS process (or a process kicked off by cups, perhaps gs), or by the printer itself.
Sorry I can't offer you more help.
I do appreciate the help that you have provided.... Thanks again! -Nick
On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 02:19 am, Nick LeRoy wrote:
So, I have a question for the group. In the KDE world, what generates the postscript? Is this logic in the KDE/QT software (my understanding, but it could be wrong), or does CUPS do this? In other words, when I print a job through Konqueror, it's PS data that's put in the queue, which is then raterized either by a CUPS process (or a process kicked off by cups, perhaps gs), or by the printer itself.
-Nick
Just a thought have you tried the KDE control centre --- System--Printing Manager to print a test page. Also have you tried to print say one line of text to a file (postscript) and check the details of the postscript file. That would be a starting point. The other thing I presume you have done is uninstall the cups rpms and re-install the rpms. Also try configuring it with the browser method (see my previous post) insead of YaST2. Regards, Graham Smith ---------------------------------------------------------
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