printing outside browser cuts off top and bottom of page

[Chad Perrin]

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 08:33:34PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote:
> Quoth Warren Block on Tuesday, 24 August 2010:
> > 
> > It appears that PPDs are stored in the reasonably-named 
> > /usr/local/etc/cups/ppd.  There's a PPD for the LJ4050 in 
> > print/foomatic-db...
> > 
> > And it has
> >   *ImageableArea Letter/Letter: "12.24 12.06 599.76 780.06"
> > 
> > 12-point margins on that printer sound about right.
> 
> Mine had 18 and 36 for the first two (for an OfficeJet 7310).  I tried
> doubling them but that didn't seem to make a difference.  Did I need to
> restart something to get that to take effect?

I suspect those correspond to the margin settings in GtkLP, but fiddling
with those settings has zero observable effect on printing.

-- 
Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
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