From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4FDF9138AE9 for ; Fri, 29 Dec 2017 14:00:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 99D3D2BC00E; Fri, 29 Dec 2017 14:00:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.muc.de (colin.muc.de [193.149.48.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 26053E0C04 for ; Fri, 29 Dec 2017 14:00:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 13348 invoked by uid 3782); 29 Dec 2017 14:00:43 -0000 Received: from acm.muc.de (p548C7879.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.140.120.121]) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Fri, 29 Dec 2017 15:00:43 +0100 Received: (qmail 18179 invoked by uid 1000); 29 Dec 2017 13:57:31 -0000 Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2017 13:57:31 +0000 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [was: What can cause printer to crop top of page?] /etc/papersize is ignored Message-ID: <20171229135731.GC15274@ACM> References: <9349542.N0JEzlDTSJ@dell_xps> <2699658.69ZC6tcFIL@dell_xps> <9e797f15-7779-6cf5-258a-4b9e6ed3e677@gmx.com> <11745435.Y3a0HW5Ij6@dell_xps> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <11745435.Y3a0HW5Ij6@dell_xps> User-Agent: Mutt/1.7.2 (2016-11-26) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) From: Alan Mackenzie X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-Archives-Salt: 16f055bd-62ba-47b1-ba11-064ccd2c8cbd X-Archives-Hash: e053aecd7210ef7bf00ef42d5a1d3325 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).