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Re: How to set printer margins?



On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 19:07:46 +0000, Rodolfo Medina wrote:

> With my Samsung ML-1915 I've been printing a .ps file simply with: `lp
> file.ps' but part of the text at the beginning of each line is cut off,
> and so is the top of the first line.  The same file used to be correctly
> printed with my old inkjet Epson.

(...)

Have you tried "man lp" for getting the "-o" options for setting the 
margins when printing text?

> I wish to set to zero the default printer margins but don't manage to.
> Pointing the web browser to: `http://localhost:631' doesn't help because
> I don't see any reference to margins there.

Maybe a zero value is not allowed by your printer (i.e., hp laserjets 
have a minimal value for margins I cannot avoid, it's just ignored).
 
Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón


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