Re: printing on "non-standard" sheet sizes

[Emma Jane Hogbin <emmajane@xtrinsic.com>]

On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 06:52:40PM +0100, Andrea Vettorello wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 12:40:45 -0500, Emma Jane Hogbin
> <emmajane@xtrinsic.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 05:38:45PM +0100, Andrea Vettorello wrote:
> > What's even weirder (to me at least) is that the printer isn't respecting
> > the size of the paper set in the page itself. Even if there's a smaller
> > piece of paper in the tray, shouldn't the printer just try to print
> > whatever it can? (The answer is "no" because the printer calculates the
> > size of the page and then starts printing at the opposite end back to the
> > beginning instead of printing at the beginning through to the end and off
> > the page...at least that's what it seems to be doing.)
> > 
> Not many other. From what application are you trying to print? From
> the program can you choose the paper size?

Just lpr...I'm trying in some other programs as well, but they're less
important than lpr as I can always create a PDF/PS from a program and then
send it to lpr. At least I think that should work.

> If you are brave enough, you can try to hack the ppd used for your
> printer and add the size you need, i've never tried but the thing
> seems quite straightforward...

There are numbers in there that I don't understand the structure of.

thanks,
emma

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