Brother HL-5050 on debian with custom page size

Trystero · 02-08-2005, 04:48 AM

Hey everybody,
I bought a Brother HL-5050 a couple of weeks ago and have been nothing but
satisfied - under Windows. We're printing on a special page format, 14,8cm by
33,5cm, and under Windows that works perfectly.

Now we're migrating to Linux (Debian Sarge) and it doesn't look that good
anymore: the printer stops printing after the length of a format-A4-page. I
tried everything, PPDs from linuxprinting.org, from Brother, I installed the
.deb package from Brother and I even changed the PPDs to support my format. To
no avail.

Does anyone have an idea how to get this printer to print some more? Just a
teeny 5cm!

I'd be eternally grateful for some hints,
Jonas

Trystero · 02-08-2005, 05:29 AM

Someone got me on the right track: the problem was the PostScript document created by OpenOffice. Apparently, under Linux, OpenOffice overrides the page format set for the document with the one set for the printer. So, I changed the SGENPRT.PS file of
OpenOffice and appended my page format. Now I can select it while printing and it prints correctly!

Nevermind, everyone,
Trystero