[KLUG Members] CUPS ColorLaserjet only 1/1 page printing

[Marr]

On Tuesday 10 August 2004 02:27pm, Richard Harding wrote:
> I just set up CUPS on Debian testing and set up a network ColorLaserJet
> 4600 printer on the network. I used the ColorLaserjet driver and the
> JetDirect IP address to set up the printer. The problem I have it that
> it is only printing on the top 1/4 of the page. Test pages and actual
> prints all shrink to only the top left 1/4 of the page.

Rick,

It's impossible to be certain, but this sounds suspiciously like something is 
using the CUPS option '-o number-up=4' to get 4 letter-sized images on a 
single printed page. When printing something that normally yields a single 
physical page, it would appear in the upper left corner as a small, 
quarter-sized page when '-o number-up=4'  is used. Normally, this is referred 
to as 'N-up' printing (e.g. 2-up, 4-up, 8-up, etc).

Is that what you're seeing? Have you tried printing any documents that would 
normally yield 2 or more pages?

As a test, you could probably override a 4-up option being injected somewhere 
by using a command-line print command:

   lpr-cups -o number-up=1 filename-to-be-printed

That way, at least you'd know if that's the problem or not. Substitute for 
'lpr-cups' whatever your command-line print command might be. (I'm using 
Slackware 9.1 and 10.0, which use LPRng instead of CUPS by default, forcing 
me to specify 'lpr-cups' when I want CUPS.)

If that's what's really happening, I have no idea what might be doing that. 
How are you printing? KDE print GUI? Gnome print GUI? App-specific GUI? 
Command-line? Other?

Does this happen with more than 1 application? Have you tried the CUPS test 
print page (i.e. via the CUPS web interface at 'http://localhost:631')?

HTH....

Bill Marr