cups with A4 wants Letter printing

Hi,

I'm using a HP LaserJet 5N printer with A4 mediums. I configured on
debian (testing) cups to use A4. If I do my print jobs, der laser
printer says I should use the letter tray - even I configured cups to
use A4. Some wrong switches? I'm using cupsys 1.2.2-1.

Thanks
Olaf

Olaf Petzold <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:

>Hi,

>I'm using a HP LaserJet 5N printer with A4 mediums. I configured on
>debian (testing) cups to use A4. If I do my print jobs, der laser
>printer says I should use the letter tray - even I configured cups to
>use A4. Some wrong switches? I'm using cupsys 1.2.2-1.

It is not cups. It is the files you are trying to print. They are probably
letter postscript files. While you setup cups to use A4 as the default, it
will listen to the file,and usually just send it on to the postscript
printer. YOur printer then asks for letter when the postscript file says
"print me on letter".
Having said that you can configure cups to fit the page to the paper,
rather than trying to print directly. (or maybe you can configure your
printer to do it as well)
Under printerdrake on Mandriva it is "Print to nearest size and scale"
option.

You have an 5N printer lpd printer. This means that what cups does more or
less is to just ship off the file to the printer.


>Thanks
>Olaf

Unruh schrieb:
> Olaf Petzold <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>
>> I'm using a HP LaserJet 5N printer with A4 mediums. I configured on
>> debian (testing) cups to use A4. If I do my print jobs, der laser
>> printer says I should use the letter tray - even I configured cups to
>> use A4. Some wrong switches? I'm using cupsys 1.2.2-1.
>
> It is not cups. It is the files you are trying to print. They are probably
> letter postscript files. While you setup cups to use A4 as the default, it
> will listen to the file,and usually just send it on to the postscript
> printer. YOur printer then asks for letter when the postscript file says
> "print me on letter".
> Having said that you can configure cups to fit the page to the paper,
> rather than trying to print directly. (or maybe you can configure your
> printer to do it as well)
> Under printerdrake on Mandriva it is "Print to nearest size and scale"
> option.
>
> You have an 5N printer lpd printer. This means that what cups does more or
> less is to just ship off the file to the printer.

$ pdfinfo hybridmagnet.pdf |grep Page
Pages: 7
Page size: 595.276 x 841.89 pts (A4)

for example, pdfinfo says it's A4. This file was created with Latex and
a4paper document option. The printer says to load the letter tray ...

The reason must be at cups imo.

Thanks
Olaf

OK, more infos about my printer/cups:

$ lp -d HPLJ5N /usr/share/cups/data/testprint.ps

success.

$ lpoptions -p HPLJ5N -l

got:
PageSize/Media Size: Letter Legal Executive Tabloid A3 *A4 A5 B5
EnvISOB5 Env10 EnvC5 EnvDL EnvMonarch
PageRegion/PageRegion: Letter Legal Executive Tabloid A3 A4 A5 B5
EnvISOB5 Env10 EnvC5 EnvDL EnvMonarch
InputSlot/Media Source: *Default Tray1 Tray2 Tray3 Tray4 Manual Envelope
Resolution/Output Resolution: 150dpi 300dpi *600dpi
Duplex/Double-Sided Printing: None *DuplexNoTumble DuplexTumble
Option1/Duplexer: *True False

$ egrep '(DefaultPageS|DefaultPageR|DefaultImageableAre|De faultPaperD)'
/etc/cups/ppd/HPLJ5N.ppd

got:
*DefaultPageSize: A4
*DefaultPageRegion: A4
*DefaultImageableArea: A4
*DefaultPaperDimension: A4

In comp.os.linux.networking Olaf Petzold <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Unruh schrieb:
> > Olaf Petzold <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:
> >> I'm using a HP LaserJet 5N printer with A4 mediums. I configured on
> >> debian (testing) cups to use A4. If I do my print jobs, der laser
> >> printer says I should use the letter tray - even I configured cups to
> >> use A4. Some wrong switches? I'm using cupsys 1.2.2-1.

> $ pdfinfo hybridmagnet.pdf |grep Page
> Pages: 7
> Page size: 595.276 x 841.89 pts (A4)

> for example, pdfinfo says it's A4. This file was created with Latex and
> a4paper document option. The printer says to load the letter tray ...

Are you printing from Acrobat Reader 7.x by any chance? The 7.x versions
have a bug causing them to allways default to letter size and refuse to
remember your paper size selelction after terminating.

If this is causing your problem, your options are to set the paper size
in acrobat reader each time you start the program or print the PDFs or
not use it for printing.

cu
Philipp

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In comp.os.linux.misc Philipp Pagel <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> If this is causing your problem, your options are to set the paper size
> in acrobat reader each time you start the program or print the PDFs or
> not use it for printing.

The last garbled sentence was meant to be

"If this is causing your problem, your options are to set the paper size
in acrobat reader each time you start the program or not use it for
printing."

sorry
Philipp

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Dept. of Genome Oriented Bioinformatics Fax. +49-8161-71 2186
Technical University of Munich
http://mips.gsf.de/staff/pagel

Philipp Pagel schrieb:
> In comp.os.linux.networking Olaf Petzold <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>> Unruh schrieb:
>>> Olaf Petzold <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:
>>>> I'm using a HP LaserJet 5N printer with A4 mediums. I configured on
>>>> debian (testing) cups to use A4. If I do my print jobs, der laser
>>>> printer says I should use the letter tray - even I configured cups to
>>>> use A4. Some wrong switches? I'm using cupsys 1.2.2-1.
>
>> $ pdfinfo hybridmagnet.pdf |grep Page
>> Pages: 7
>> Page size: 595.276 x 841.89 pts (A4)
>
>> for example, pdfinfo says it's A4. This file was created with Latex and
>> a4paper document option. The printer says to load the letter tray ...
>
> Are you printing from Acrobat Reader 7.x by any chance? The 7.x versions
> have a bug causing them to allways default to letter size and refuse to
> remember your paper size selelction after terminating.

I'm using Evince 0.4.0 (default pdf viewer install for debian?). Maybe
there is a bug?

Thanks
Olaf

In comp.os.linux.misc Olaf Petzold <(E-Mail Removed)>:
> Hi,

> I'm using a HP LaserJet 5N printer with A4 mediums. I configured on
> debian (testing) cups to use A4. If I do my print jobs, der laser
> printer says I should use the letter tray - even I configured cups to
> use A4. Some wrong switches? I'm using cupsys 1.2.2-1.

Had this annoying problem with some printer out of this line
once. The only thing that really cured it was setting A4 paper
fixed in the printer, through its menu. I'd check the manual of
the printer how to go about it.

Good luck

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In comp.os.linux.networking Olaf Petzold <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Philipp Pagel schrieb:
> > In comp.os.linux.networking Olaf Petzold <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> >> Unruh schrieb:
> >>> Olaf Petzold <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:
> > Are you printing from Acrobat Reader 7.x by any chance? The 7.x versions
> > have a bug causing them to allways default to letter size and refuse to
> > remember your paper size selelction after terminating.

> I'm using Evince 0.4.0 (default pdf viewer install for debian?). Maybe
> there is a bug?

I don't know, but I doubt it.

Just to narrow down the problem some more: What happens if you just say

lpr mydocument.pdf

cu
Philipp

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Dept. of Genome Oriented Bioinformatics Fax. +49-8161-71 2186
Technical University of Munich
http://mips.gsf.de/staff/pagel

Thanks Philipp,

> In comp.os.linux.networking Olaf Petzold <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>> Philipp Pagel schrieb:
>>> In comp.os.linux.networking Olaf Petzold <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>>> Unruh schrieb:
>>>>> Olaf Petzold <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:
>>> Are you printing from Acrobat Reader 7.x by any chance? The 7.x versions
>>> have a bug causing them to allways default to letter size and refuse to
>>> remember your paper size selelction after terminating.
>
>> I'm using Evince 0.4.0 (default pdf viewer install for debian?). Maybe
>> there is a bug?
>
> I don't know, but I doubt it.
>
> Just to narrow down the problem some more: What happens if you just say
>
> lpr mydocument.pdf

I should fill up the letter tray of my LJ5

CU Olaf