Re: Printing from thunderbird/firefox

[Eric Gaumer <gaumerel@ecs.fullerton.edu>]

Martin J Hooper wrote:
> Michael Friendly wrote:
>
> > I'm using gnome 2.8/debian unstable with the latest firefox and
> > thunderbird.  When I try to print, the default printer in my
> > printer panel is 'lex720@:64' and using it prints tiny (1/4 size)
> > pages one up.
> >
> > using about:config reveals:
> >
> >
> > print.printer_lex720@:64.print_command   user set   string   lpr
> > ${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME:+'-P}$MOZ_PRINTER_NAME}
> >
> > What can I do or change so that printing works correctly? With
> > mozilla, there was the same printer entry, with the same behavior,
> > but there was also a 'Postscript default' printer that had the
> > correct behavior.
>
>
> Are you using KDE?  If so try changing the print command to kprinter
> --stdin which will then run the KDE Printing dialog instead of using
> the settings from Firefox...

I had similar problems but the reverse effect. My text was huge. I reconfigured xprt-common
to 300dpi and all was well. It had been at 600dpi.

]$ dpkg-reconfigure xprt-common


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