Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:28:52 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Chip Camden <sterling@camdensoftware.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: printing outside browser cuts off top and bottom of page Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1008251423580.32243@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <20100825155343.GQ2236@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> References: <20100824204552.GA70395@guilt.hydra> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1008241546350.96400@wonkity.com> <20100824225829.GA70716@guilt.hydra> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1008241805300.96896@wonkity.com> <20100825002801.GJ2236@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1008242100120.97487@wonkity.com> <20100825033334.GK2236@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> <20100825064113.GC71916@guilt.hydra> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1008250727130.31086@wonkity.com> <20100825151856.GA74267@guilt.hydra> <20100825155343.GQ2236@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com>
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On Wed, 25 Aug 2010, Chip Camden wrote: > Quoth Chad Perrin on Wednesday, 25 August 2010: >> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 07:57:29AM -0600, Warren Block wrote: >>> >>> For another test, use pdf2ps and feed the PS output directly to the >>> printer, bypassing CUPS. If the LJ4050N Ethernet is connected (and it >>> really should be), you can use nc something like this (untested): >>> >>> # pdf2ps test.pdf - | nc lj4050hostname 9100 >>> >>> If that has cut off margins, it's a setting within the printer. >>> If it prints fine, it's CUPS. >> >> That test worked out beautifully. Apparently, it is a problem with CUPS >> settings. > > It didn't work at all for my OfficeJet. Apparently that printer doesn't > know PostScript, because all I got was a bunch of garbage with some > PostScript commands mixed in. Very few inkjets understand PS. But ghostscript may have a built-in driver for it which can be used like the ps2pcl filter in my lpd article. Maybe you'll find some of the rest of it useful: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/lpdprinting.html#_adding_a_filter There are also the hplip and hpijs ports.
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