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. can i change some setting that says to print only on the allowable print area of the printer? jerry -- Try Linux, the Operating System which values your freedom. Not the Outlaw Microsoft, which values their bottom line. --- perl -e 'print pack("H*","6a6664656364406578656370632e636f6d");' or perl -e 'print unpack("u", "2:F9D96-D0&5X96-P8RYC;VT*");'
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.
can i change some setting that says to print only on the allowable print area of the printer?
jerry
Hi, Jerry: I'm afraid I can't help solve your problem, but for what it's worth, if you go to YaST2 and run the printer setup there, YaST will offer to print a test page which, when printed, will tell you that many printers are unable to print close to the page margins, and will offer no further help. Good luck with the problem Regards, Glenn -- Glenn Williams - n0hn@abq-nm.com Registered Linux User #135678 Powered by SuSE 7.2 Linux Professional
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.
can i change some setting that says to print only on the allowable print area of the printer?
I'm afraid I can't help solve your problem, but for what it's worth, if you go to YaST2 and run the printer setup there, YaST will offer to print a test page which, when printed, will tell you that many printers are unable to print close to the page margins, and will offer no further help.
Inkjet printers have a non-prinatble areas (normally at top and/or bottom of
pages). I experience this too with my HP DeskJet 840C (only on the bottom
though and I can live with this). Not sure if there's anyway to adjust the
printable area - perhaps someone else knows about this?
Getting your right margin cropped is unusual unless you're printing a badly
written Web page.
M
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Martin Webster
Sometimes the printing is set up for a European page size, which might do something unfortuante to the top and bottom, but should not affect the right margin, since the European page, while longer, is also narrower. You should find out what size paper your printer driver is set for. (I forget how.) The other problem I see, even with a well-behaved HP Laserjet in Windows98, is that some websites are not printer friendly, and you'll see just this kind of thing. On some websites that are not otherwise print-friendly, there will be a snap-on line somewhere that says "print version" or something like that. Others don't care. One possibility, if you really need the printed edition, is to use a screen-capture utility that can print to a usable size. In Windows, I have been using something called SnapShot/32, which is really nice, simple, and a $15 registration. Supposedly still available at http://198.207.242.3/gregko/snap32.htm (except that sounds like a college address.) Don't know what they have for Linux. The other option, if the website will let you, is to hi-lite the parts of the text you want, import it into your wordprocessor of choice, and massage it until it fits. HTH--doug 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/
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
In reply to you and my own previous message, for those who want a _Windows_ screen capture program, the url I provided is unreachable. Apparently SnapShot/32 was sold to Hyperionics, at www.hyperionics.com who renamed it HyperSnap, and I've followed this OT thread far enough, I think. Sorry for any bum steers or time wasted. 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/
On Friday 19 October 2001 13:12, Jerry Davis 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.
can i change some setting that says to print only on the allowable print area of the printer?
jerry
I too am having a problem. It seems this is the result of an update I applied at some time since 7.2 came out. It may be a ghostscript issue. I often do psbook [-s40] filename.ps | pdnup -2 -pletter > book.ps and then after making sure it's all correct with gv book.ps, I send it to the printer. This seems to be broken. I did just take a look at the /etc/a2ps.cfg, /etc/a2ps-site.cfg and /etc/enscript.cfg and noticed the default Default medium was set to A4. Changing this in the /etc/enscript.cfg influenced the behavior of enscript. I'm still playing around to try to figure out the affect of the rest of the settings. Note well: Lette != letter !=Letter != Letterdj != letterjd! This is all Ronald Regan's fault. He's the one who killed the effort to transition to the metric system. IIRC his argument was something like 'America is the strongest economy on the planet, if *they* don't want to use our system tough, it's good enough for *us*.' And before you go flaming me for dogging a Republican, let me tell you my Dad the engineer has never supported a Democrat for dog catcher, and he agrees with me on this. How many inches are in a mile? -- Open Source Software depends on your support. If you use it, be sure to give something back. http://www.suse.com | http://www.kde.org http://www.mozilla.org | http://www.xemacs.org
On Sunday 21 October 2001 15:21, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
On Friday 19 October 2001 13:12, Jerry Davis 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.
can i change some setting that says to print only on the allowable print area of the printer?
jerry
I too am having a problem. It seems this is the result of an update I applied at some time since 7.2 came out. It may be a ghostscript issue. I often do psbook [-s40] filename.ps | pdnup -2 -pletter > book.ps and then after making sure it's all correct with gv book.ps, I send it to the printer. This seems to be broken. I did just take a look at the /etc/a2ps.cfg, /etc/a2ps-site.cfg and /etc/enscript.cfg and noticed the default Default medium was set to A4. Changing this in the /etc/enscript.cfg influenced the behavior of enscript. I'm still playing around to try to figure out the affect of the rest of the settings. Note well: Lette != letter !=Letter != Letterdj != letterjd!
I have this problem as well, or at least a variation of it, when I print ASCII files. Last line is either chopped in half or dropped entirely and the penultimate line is chopped in half.
This is all Ronald Regan's fault. He's the one who killed the effort to transition to the metric system. IIRC his argument was something like 'America is the strongest economy on the planet, if *they* don't want to use our system tough, it's good enough for *us*.' And before you go flaming me for dogging a Republican, let me tell you my Dad the engineer has never supported a Democrat for dog catcher, and he agrees with me on this.
Guess I have to agree with you on this one, although I am still trying to get used to the "liters per 100 kilometers" measurement the Europeans use. Miles per gallon still seems to make a lot more sense to me. Using just one system would have also saved the US a couple of billion $ on spacecraft a couple of years back...
How many inches are in a mile?
12 x 5280. The actual calculation is left as an exercise for the reader. Cheers, Sean -- Theo. Sean Schulze theo.schulze@myokay.net "[T]he key to maintaining leadership in the economy and the technology that are about to emerge is likely to be the social position of knowledge professionals and social acceptance of their values." -- Peter Drucker
The whole metric system is based upon an erroneous measurement of the circumference of the Earth. Why should anyone use it? Especially since it was first espoused by the French? Napoleon! Why not hundredths and thousandths of inches, and (American) gallons and pounds? mm are for films and lenses, inches are for paper sizes and board sizes, meters are for human races, miles are for cars. Liters are for gin, not gasoline. It is obvious. ta-tat-- doug /snip/
This is all Ronald Regan's fault. He's the one who killed the effort to transition to the metric system. IIRC his argument was something like 'America is the strongest economy on the planet, if *they* don't want to use our system tough, it's good enough for *us*.' And before you go flaming me for dogging a Republican, let me tell you my Dad the engineer has never supported a Democrat for dog catcher, and he agrees with me on this.
Guess I have to agree with you on this one, although I am still trying to get used to the "liters per 100 kilometers" measurement the Europeans use. Miles per gallon still seems to make a lot more sense to me.
Using just one system would have also saved the US a couple of billion $ on spacecraft a couple of years back...
How many inches are in a mile?
12 x 5280. The actual calculation is left as an exercise for the reader.
Cheers, Sean
Hi At least metric system is 10-based, thus easy to calculate. I really don' t care if it is based on some weird measurement error.. I've heard that inch was the length of a thumb... ? What is weird? As I been working with cars when I was younger, I had some great trouble with tools.. Your system is just with no logic to me. Metric is much much easier. As You can see, this would lead to endless discussion, so we should stop it now, and if needed (?), continue somewhere else.. It's really not a suitable topic here. Jaska. Viestissä Tiistai 23. Lokakuuta 2001 03:32, Doug McGarrett kirjoitti:
The whole metric system is based upon an erroneous measurement of the circumference of the Earth. Why should anyone use it? Especially since it was first espoused by the French? Napoleon! Why not hundredths and thousandths of inches, and (American) gallons and pounds? mm are for films and lenses, inches are for paper sizes and board sizes, meters are for human races, miles are for cars. Liters are for gin, not gasoline. It is obvious. ta-tat-- doug
/snip/
This is all Ronald Regan's fault. He's the one who killed the effort to transition to the metric system. IIRC his argument was something like 'America is the strongest economy on the planet, if *they* don't want to use our system tough, it's good enough for *us*.' And before you go flaming me for dogging a Republican, let me tell you my Dad the engineer has never supported a Democrat for dog catcher, and he agrees with me on this.
Guess I have to agree with you on this one, although I am still trying to
get
used to the "liters per 100 kilometers" measurement the Europeans use.
Miles
per gallon still seems to make a lot more sense to me.
Using just one system would have also saved the US a couple of billion $ on spacecraft a couple of years back...
How many inches are in a mile?
12 x 5280. The actual calculation is left as an exercise for the reader.
Cheers, Sean
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Cliff Sarginson -
Doug McGarrett -
Glenn Williams -
Jaakko Tamminen -
Jerry Davis -
Martin Webster -
Steven T. Hatton -
Theo. Sean Schulze