Subject: printout being chopped off...
Date: Tue, May 11, 1999 at 11:06:09AM -0700
In reply to:Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Quoting Sudhakar Chandrasekharan([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Hi,
>
> I have an Epson Color Stylus 640. When I print 2-uped pages, a bit of the
> page (on the left hand side) gets chopped off. I am printing to 'letter'
> paper.
>
> Here is what I tried:
>
> * Installed slink's lprng, gs (not gs-alladin), enscript, psutils and
> magicfilter.
> * Ran /usr/sbin/magicfilterconfig and chose stylus800, stylus_color_360dpi
> and stylus_color_720dpi as filters.
> * When I print from Netscape Communicator using lpr -Pprinter_name, the
> output is fine.
> * When I try to use print from Netscape Communicator using 'psnup -c
> -Pletter -n 2 | lpr -Pprinter_name' I see that a little bit (about 2
> characters) gets chopped off on the left hand side (when seen
> length-wise). It is not that the printed area "bleeds" off the end of the
> paper. There is a definite non-printable border. It is at the edge of the
> border and the printable area that the "bleed" occurs.
> * Tried printing from command line using 'enscript -2r -G -Mletter
> -Pprinter_name foo.txt'. Same problem.
>
> * Installed lprng, enscript and psutils from slink. Installed gs-aladdin
> and apsfilter from potato.
> * Configured apsfilter for uniprint driver for Epson Color Stylus 600.
> * Tried printing with psnup and enscript. Same problem as before.
>
> I guess I need to somehow change the "printable area" parameter for
> papersize letter. How do I do this in a system-wide way?
>
> Thanks.
I had a similar problem with my Brother Laser Printer. I finally
fixed it by using a2ps and changing the papersize in a2ps.cfg
ie Medium: Letter 607 780. I just keep changing it until I got
everything printing on the paper, correctly.
HTH
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