Cups/Printer Page size
 

Ok i finally go around to setting up my printer. But when im in cups and i go to printer test page. It works fine but the it squeeses everything into half the page and i noticed that the right side is cut off. So I went into configure Printer under cups and check it there it says letter size of paper and on the box on the paper it says 8.5' * 11' LETTER SIZE so the default size is Letter so i left that alone so i didnt change anything left it all default. Went into Mozilla and tried to print off a page throught there changed that paper size to 8.5' * 11' tried to print again and same thing happend!!!! I dunno what else to do?? Do i have to restart after probably not but just checking Thanx and PLEASE HELP ME!!!! i have a important papper due tuesday Thanx for your help!!!!


Matt3333

There's a nifty little program out there, called "print tool". It uses lpr instead of CUPS and its really userfriendly. Has its own free drivers.

I know this doesnt solve your CUPS issues, but if you have a paper due, it might be worth a try changing printerdeamons and seeing how the lpr drivers perform.

I can only find redhat and debian Packages not even a source pkg?? I tired the debian source but its not working so if anyone knows how to fix my cups issues and or find me a source pkg THANX thank-you for your reply and help!

Matt3333

Have you tried using the cups web interface? should be at localhost:631

You can look at that and see what your default paper format is.

have you tried Sourceforge?

It could also be the printer driver you chose, if it matches your printer you might have to look at resolutions the printer driver uses and change the resolution. Unfortunately I can't help any further then this since I use Fedora and they have their own printer configuration program.

Yes i do use localhost:631 thats the one im using now. The resolution is set to 360*360dpi?? I dunno im going to try to switch my driver hopefully that will make a difference thanx for your replys if anyone else knows what i could try please help me yes i did try sourceforge.net and it finds printer configuration but its for windows or something like thgat not printtool!!
Thanx!!!!!


Matt3333

Anyone??? i tried changing my res. It made the test page look alot better with more colour and brighter but still the same size i tried changing the paper size in there and it doesnt seem to do anything??? I dunno what else do to??? Does anyone know of a good Print program?? im going to do some searching but if anyone can help me PLEASE!!!!!


Matt3333

Could you please tell me what type of printer do you have, dot matrix, ink or laser, brand, driver you are using, version of cups, etc. with that info we might figure something out, also if you could post an image of the printout somewhere so I can take a look at it and give you some recomendations.

Alberto

What type of printer are you trying to set up?

Ok im trying to set up my Canon i470D using gimp-print v4.5.2 driver S4500 I hope that helps alittle I also tried turboPrint if anyone has heard of it?? And anyways it does the same thing as Cups with half the page and cuts off abit of the right side.The only difference if theres this big water mark where the cups logo use to be. And with turboprint its there all the time. Until you pay!!!!! Also im using Cups v1.1.19 Hmmm about the showing you the page ill see what i can do. I dont have a scanner so maybe ill just try taking a pricture of it with my digital Camera im not sure if that would work but ill try it and tell you what i get! Thanx for your Help!!1

Matt3333

Have you tried the BJC800 driver this is the driver I am using for my Canon i550, and it works well. Give that a try, I found it under BJC-7100 I believe.

Let us know if it works

Ok i got Good News and i got Bad News ok the Good news first Your a genius!! That driver worked i can see the whole test page. The Bad News it that i can only print out that test page, like before i could print from Mozilla without a problem now nothing happens!!! Do you Know why this would Happen??? Because i sure as hell DONT!@!!1 Thank-you For your Help!!!!!

Matt3333

Okay, well at least we are one step ahead, okay when you changed your printer driver did you just change the driver or create a new printer? If you created a new printer I would make sure that it is the default. Once we know that the printer is the default then open up Mozilla click on file-->print and make sure that it says to use the post script/default printer. Then once you are sure on these two points try to print from Mozilla again, you may have to close Mozilla then restart mozilla.

Let us know how it goes. :)

lol hehe ya i did exactly what you just said and yes i just did modify printer i didnt make a new printer i restarted Mozilla still nothing and i even tried restarting my computer!!! It is set to the postscript/default printer. I also tried using other programs such as Netscape abiword. And nothing!!!Thank-you

Matt3333

I checked the printer that you have on linuxprinting.org for that particular printer and is not listed, that could be part of the reason, is not fully compatible, eventhough it prints something, is not using the right driver, I will try to check on the net to see if there is a particular ppd file that you can use with this one.

Alberto

Ok thank-you alberto2498. Awhile Back i was checking out the site and i noticed someone there had it working and they were just trying to get digital thing where u put your memory stick and it reads the digital picutes that way. I tried emailing him and i asked him about how he got it working he said that he didnt know and that someone else hooked it up for him. So hopefully we can get it working!!
Thank-you So much1!!

Matt3333

Do you have a BJC-7000 driver, try and give that a try I was googling around and somebody said that the Canon i470D works with the BJC-7000 driver.

HTH

Ok i get the same problem with it printing out a test page fine then when i try it in mozilla nothing happens. Hmm when you go to crtl+P you get this box which says postscript/default then on the side of that theres the properties botton when you click that you get the command. It printing with do you know what i mean? I noticed it was using lpr instead of cups which im using maybe thats just the defualt way of printing?? anyhow i thought i would ask. I really hope we can get this working!!!!! Thank-you guys for all your time so far!!!

Matt3333

This is the command from my machine,(the one Im using in this ver moment)
lpr ${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME:+'-P'}${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME}
I think if not wrong that that is the default way of printing, eventhough you see that part of lpr it will print, basically what happens is that the lpr command filters the information and sends it to cups which at the same time will send to your printer, do you have lpr installed? that could be part of the problem.

Alberto

I found this thread in the forums, seems to be the same problem you are having with being able to print a test page but not able to print from mozilla, might help you out also.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=153890

Thats AWSOME it work it work it work it real;llly works yayayayay thank-you for that link!! ok now how would i set it up so it uses lpr-cups for everything now??? THANK-YOU SOOO MUCH!!!!!I cant believe thats all it was!!

Matt3333

From what I could pick up from that link it seems that Mozlla would be the only application that needs the printer setup like that, the rest of your programs should work.

Actually Mozilla is the only program that works!! Im trying to print off my resume Using OpenOffice.org1.1.0 and its not working again ibelieve with the whole default printer and printing with lpr and not lpr-cups is there a ways to make the command lpr-cups as Default????AbiWord is also not working!!! If there was a way to put these files onto mozilla i would just do that and print them off there but not happening. Oh i also tried exporting them as pdf's and printing with xpdf i think and that doesnt work as well!! Please help me !! Thank you!!

Matt3333

Did you use the printer set-up function with open office, I believe you should be able to change it the way you did mozilla, just go into your menu and choose printer setup, if it isn't there then try this at a prompt: /path/to/openoffice/installation/oopadmin this should allow you to set your printer up like in Mozilla.

HTH.

Let us know if it works, hopefully we will nip this in the bud soon, sorry I didn't respond sooner but I was out of town this weekend.

Oh i c well its too late now. All i did was make a symbolic link from lpr to lpr-cups so now every frigen program works lol hehe!! Thank-you for your help and patience with this damn issues hehe thanks again!

Matt3333

Way to go !!! Glad you finally got all the programs printing what a relief phewww!