Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 129866
printing via a2ps wrong paper size and ugly result
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:47 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 Description of problem: When printing with a2ps: [dumas@hermes these]$ a2ps -s2 ~/these.ps_pages [/home/dumas/these.ps_pages (ps, d�l�gu� � PsNup) : 7 pages sur 2 feuilles] request id is kfet-147 (1 file(s)) [Total : 8 pages sur 2 feuilles] envoy� � l'imprimante par d�faut The job sent requires letter paper, and when I force the printer to print (on A4) the result is ugly, it seems the the resolution used for printing is very bad, something like one half millimeter square for each "pixel". (the messages above are, roughly: (ps, delegated to PsNup) : 7 pages on two sheets. And the second is [Total: 8 pages on 2 sheets]). I configured the printer with: [root@hermes root]# lpadmin -p kfet -m laserjet.ppd.gz -v socket://kfet:9100 -o media=A4 lpr seems to print well. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): a2ps-4.13b-37 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. print via a2ps 2. 3. Actual Results: a2ps tries to print on a letter paper, although the printer was configured with A4. And the result is ugly. Expected Results: a beautifull printing. Additional info: The system was upgraded from a redhat 9 using yum. On the redhat 9 a2ps printed well. I didn't used printconf/system-config-printer to configure the printers, only lpadmin. I have another problem with cups but I don't know if it is related or not: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=129864
You need to use the -M option to set the page size.
Called with: [dumas@hermes dumas]$ a2ps -s2 -MA4 these.ps_pages Still the same. I tried to print from openoffice, and it also wants to print on letter. The quality seems fine, but there is only one page per sheet, thus it isn't easy to know if the issue of ugly output is also present with openoffice.
And also on redhat 9 the -M wasn't needed.
I don't think a2ps is the problem here -- it's more likely that your printer is configured incorrectly. Please try using system-config-printer to configure it instead.
I figured out what was the problem. I reconfigured my printer with lpadmin -p kfet -v socket://kfet:9100 -o media=A4 instead of lpadmin -p kfet -m laserjet.ppd.gz -v socket://kfet:9100 -o media=A4 and now it works well. That's strange because the printer is an HP laserjet 4200dtn and also it used to work with that ppd file. Another strange thing is that lpr printed well, but not a2ps or openoffice. I also tried with system-config-printer. After I have run one or the other lpadmin command, I just click on apply and it prints well. Maybe this should be reassigned to cups? Otherwise it is notabug.