Re: printing setup

[tyler <tyler.smith@mail.mcgill.ca>]

"Russell L. Harris" <rlharris@oplink.net> writes:

> * tyler <tyler.smith@mail.mcgill.ca> [080517 13:49]:
>> tyler <tyler.smith@mail.mcgill.ca> writes:
>> 
>>> I'm just starting to set up my printer, and all is well except for one
>>> thing. The page prints too close to the top of the paper, so that I lose
>>> the top cm or so off the top of the paper. I'm not sure if this is a
>>> CUPS issue, a printer issue, a driver issue? I looked around the CUPS
>>> webpage, and did some googling, but I'm not really sure what I'm looking
>>> for. Any pointers?
>
> Check the default papersize (typically A4 or letter).
>
>     $ apropos paper
>
> See the man pages for:  papersize, paperconf, paperconfig, texconfig.
>
>

Thanks!

I checked through the man pages, and as far as I can tell my default
paper size is correctly set to letter, 8.5" x 11". paperconfig isn't
installed, and I don't know what package it's part of, so that may be a
problem? Also, when printing from Firefox/Iceweasel I found that I
needed to reduce the page by 70% to get it to fit onto the page. The
option to scale the page to paper size didn't work on its own. Anything
else I should look at?

Cheers,

Tyler

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