On 6 Dec 2002, Bret Hughes wrote:
> Curiosities:
> 
> I am used to printing man pages via command line with 
> 
> man whatever |lpr 
> 
> under the old spooler to the hp printer.  on the xerox it cuts off the
> first couple of characters.  it works ok using 
> 
> man -t whatever |lpr.  
> 
> I dont understand the difference and can't test the hp right now to
> isolate the problem.
> 
I suspect you can fix this one by lpoptions
lp -o page-left=72 page-right=72 page-top=72 page-bottom=72
would set the all margrins for 1 inch when printing text files
I had to set mine to 36 for my IIIsi so I did not lose the first
few lines.
Did you read the logs for any clues on what is going on on the 5si?
CUPS has a mailing list that might help you get it working they
also sell a book that gives through documentation of CUPS.
                          Linda



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