Printing tiny on Epson Stylus C86 in Ubuntu 9.04

kjaspan · 10-01-2009, 08:56 AM

Ever since I upgraded to Ubuntu 9.04 my Open Office Word Processor and Document Viewer (pdf) documents print in a tiny font in the corner of the page. I cannot get normal size printing whatever I do with the printer prerences. I have to save as html, load into Firefox and print from there. Any suggestions??

business_kid · 10-01-2009, 11:50 AM

Sounds like your printer setup in OO is for bus tickets. From the help
To access this command...
Choose File - Printer Settings
Choose File - Templates - Organize - Commands (button)- Printer Settings

kjaspan · 10-01-2009, 07:40 PM

Thanks. But, unless your instructions are incomplete, this changes nothing. I set the printer to print letter size but still got a bus ticket. I'd been wondering if this was a new bug in 9.04 because I never experienced it before. I am eagerly awaiting the 9.10 release at the end of the month, hoping it will be fixed there.....

business_kid · 10-02-2009, 03:34 AM

I printed for years with a Epson C70 for years and all went fine. I would next try closing OO. There is this thing called spadmin, which does a bit of this, and I would remove the printer there, close it, reopen it and try to get it to let cups do the thinking.

kjaspan · 10-02-2009, 07:55 AM

Couldn't find spadmin, but am installing a huge update which includes Open Office.

Meanwhile, I removed the printer and reinstalled it and, voila, an odt document printed normally.

Thanks for the help.