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On 2017.12.21 17:35, Mick wrote: |
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> On Thursday, 21 December 2017 21:24:57 GMT Jack wrote: |
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> > I may be grabbing at straws here, but what happens if you print |
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> > something in landscape? Is the trimmed edge the new top (long |
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> edge) or |
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> > still the same short edge? |
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> |
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> Aha! Good call. In landscape the cropping takes place on the left |
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> (short) |
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> edge, not the top of the page. |
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> |
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> |
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> > Does the same happen with other apps? browser, emacs, gimp (just |
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> make |
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> > a simple line drawing), pdf display, image viewer, ...? I'm |
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> thinking |
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> > of printing things that originate as different image types - maybe |
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> one |
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> > will behave differently and point to something in the process. Can |
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> you |
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> > send a plain text file to the printer with lp? |
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> |
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> I sent a page with Chromium in landscape, it cropped the left hand |
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> short edge |
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> too. |
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> |
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> PDF readers print with cropped top, in portrait. |
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> |
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> I sent a txt file with 'lpr -o fit-to-page' in portrait and the same |
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> cropping |
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> on the top of the page happens. |
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If the actual text was sent to the printer (and not turned into ps or |
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pdf first, then I blame the printer. |
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> |
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> So it is not application specific, but page orientation specific. |
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No, it always happens on the first short edge to come out of the |
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printer, no matter which way the pixels are oriented. That (to me) |
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rules out everything except the printer, and just possibly the printer |
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driver. |
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> |
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> Could it be something has gone wrong with the rollers? This is a |
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> brand new printer! |
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Possibly, but my guess is some internal printer setting. Does the |
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printer itself provide a web interface? If so, hunt through the |
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options. You may find something there. (I'm not familiar with that |
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printer, but all of the few wireless printers I have worked with |
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provide a web interface on their configured IP address.) |
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> |
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> I'll try to print a page with MSWindows tomorrow, if only to prove if |
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> this is |
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> a cups problem or not. |
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> |
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> Thanks for your suggestions! |
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> -- |
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> Regards, |
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> Mick |
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