Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 8010
margins are wrong on a postscript printer
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:53 EDT
I am using a 600x600 dpi ps printer with postscript filter. Sending directly testpage.ps to /dev/lp0 produces a correct page, giving the command print ps test page from printtool produces a page shifted up of approximately one inch. debug info from filter scripts are the following: Type of file is INPUT-to-ps Best path of depth is cat - | ps-to-printer.fpi Desired print format is ps Paper size is a4 A form feed will not be sent. Magic is | PostScript document text conforming at level 2.0| Magic is | PostScript document text conforming at level 2.0| Type of file is INPUT-to-ps Best path of depth is cat - | ps-to-printer.fpi
Obvious question: What size paper is in the printer? There have been a few comments recently to the effect that if one has US letter sized paper in the printer and specify A4 paper size, the text is printed about 1" higher up the page than it ought to be, and I note the following line in your comments... Q> Paper size is a4 ...which tends to imply that at least part of that equation is correct.
Sorry for lacking detail: paper size is set to A4 and the printer has A4 paper. So the other half of the equation does not apply ;-)
I can't reproduce it here. What printer are you using exactly? What does your /var/spool/lpd/lp0/postscript.cfg say?
I am using a TI microlaser 600 and the following is the content of the postscript.cfg file: # # configuration related to postscript printing # generated automatically by PRINTTOOL # manual changes to this file may be lost # GSDEVICE=POSTSCRIPT RESOLUTION=600x600 COLOR= PAPERSIZE=a4 EXTRA_GS_OPTIONS="" REVERSE_ORDER= PS_SEND_EOF=NO # # following is related to printing multiple pages per output page # NUP=1 RTLFTMAR=18 TOPBOTMAR=72
The new printing system solves this.