Fwd: Printing problems

I am sending this again with lpd.conf and printcap attached at the suggestion of one of the readers. Sorry for the additional 'bulk' on the list but I really thought something would be lost in the translation if I didn't include the basic question text. If anyone needs further configuration info I will gladly provide it. Scott ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Printing problems Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 15:40:49 -0400 From: "J. Scott Thayer, M.D." To: suse-linux-e@suse.com I am thoroughly disgusted with this situation. I have an 8.0 system. It runs fine, if a bit slower than previous versions. The one thing that is making me crazy is printing. I had different printing problems with 7.3 too, 7.1 was fine. I have an HP IIP laser, it prints perfectly under Win98. Under linux I am using lprng sosftware. The problem is it USUALLY prints too close to the top of the paper so the top line is cut in half. I have gone through everything I can think of to correct or modify the system to no avail. No my software is NOT set to A4 it is set to letter. I even went into the lpdfilter and hard modified it so wherever it referred to a paper size it would come up letter. This really is ridiculous. Under previous versions of Suse there was a program for Tex called texconfig that had a section that allowed you to move the area of printing around until it was symmetrical (they have taken that out, as far as I could tell, when they changed texconfig), THAT is what it seems like I need. I have checked the manual for the printer and there is no way to make margin settings THERE. Printing is IMPORTANT. There HAS to be a solution for this so I am willing to do whatever. Please don't say that CUPS is the answer, if it was that good Suse would have made it the default and they didn't. I tried CUPS on 7.3 and it was just as bad, I also tried the commercial package, whose name I forget, ESP maybe? I sure could use a hand here. I have RTFM and wouldn't be asking if I had found an answer. Scott

---- lpd.conf ---- # See "man lpd.conf" for a list of options you can set here. # check_for_nonprintable # means the 'check_for_nonprintable' option default value is on or 1 # To set it to OFF or 0, change this to read: # check_for_nonprintable@ check_for_nonprintable@ client_config_file=/etc/lpd.conf filter_ld_path=/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/X11R6/lib:/usr/local/lib

filter_path=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/lib/filters:/usr/X11R6/bin

mail_operator_on_error=root pr=/usr/bin/pr printcap_path=/etc/printcap # If you distribute your printcap entries through NIS, # use the following line instead: #printcap_path=|/usr/lib/yp/match_printcap printer_perms_path=/etc/lpd.perms server_config_file=/etc/lpd.conf server_user=lp user=lp group=lp # If your printer doesn't print the job remove the "@" from the following # line. (for example necessary for HP4M with a JetDirect Card) send_data_first@ mc#0 send_try#0 max_connect_interval#10

---- printcap ---- lp:\ :cm=lpdfilter drv=upp method=auto color=yes:\ :lp=/dev/lp0:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ :lf=/var/spool/lpd/lp/log:\ :af=/var/spool/lpd/lp/acct:\ :if=/usr/lib/lpdfilter/bin/if:\ :la@:\ :tr=:cl:sh: