Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [was: What can cause printer to crop top of page?] /etc/papersize is ignored

[Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>]

Hello, Mick.

On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 13:51:01 +0000, Mick wrote:
> On Thursday, 28 December 2017 06:14:23 GMT Taiidan@gmx.com wrote:
> > For the record I would also like to add that using the duplexer on some
> > poorly designed printers cuts off the bottom or top of the page without
> > any type of notification.

> Debugging cups and trying all conceivable combos of settings didn't get me 
> anywhere.  Then I decided to start looking around the brother driver files 
> installed under /opt/brother/Printers/hl3140cw/, where I found ./inf/
> brhl3140cwrc and ./inf/brhl3140cwfunc both specifying Letter instead of A4 as 
> paper size.

> So, I've set "PageSize=A4" in brhl3140cwrc and it now prints correctly aligned 
> pages once more.

> I'm not sure if this is the default path for these files across distros, or if 
> some symlink from /usr/libexec/cups/filter/ or /usr/share/cups/model/ is not 
> working as it should.  In any case, the bug seems to be that using the cups 
> GUI interface doesn't have any effect on the driver configuration files which 
> are by default set to PageSize=Letter and also messes up the created ppd file 
> used by cups.

I think the bug is that "A4" has to be set in so many places, where "so
many" means more than one.  In a well designed printing system, there
would be just one place to set it.

> I'm posting this here to save others time, should they come across the same 
> problem.

I've been luckier with printing, but thanks all the same.  Who knows
when I might no longer be so lucky.

> -- 
> Regards,
> Mick

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).