Re: setting up a HP 880C/850C

["Christian T. Steigies" <steigies@physik.uni-kiel.de>]

Hi,
On Tue, 11 May 1999, David Wright wrote:

> I have an 895c and use the hpdj driver in gs-aladdin, which uses a lot
> less ink than hp550c which I believe is the "traditional" deskjet driver.
Gonna try that (have to update the notebook from hamm to slink...)
 
> Use the extra switch -M A4dj to tell a2ps leave an extra margin. I don't
> know how to integrate this into /etc/papersize, but then I always use
> a2ps through wrapper functions in .bashrc as there are far too many
> switches to remember my preferences.
Thanks for the hint! I should have read the a2ps docs...
Put in your ~/.a2psrc
# Default medium
Options: --medium=A4dj

Or change it in /etc/a2ps.cfg (standard is A4)

Ciao,
Christian.