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Hello, Mick. |
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On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 13:51:01 +0000, Mick wrote: |
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> On Thursday, 28 December 2017 06:14:23 GMT Taiidan@×××.com wrote: |
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> > For the record I would also like to add that using the duplexer on some |
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> > poorly designed printers cuts off the bottom or top of the page without |
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> > any type of notification. |
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> Debugging cups and trying all conceivable combos of settings didn't get me |
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> anywhere. Then I decided to start looking around the brother driver files |
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> installed under /opt/brother/Printers/hl3140cw/, where I found ./inf/ |
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> brhl3140cwrc and ./inf/brhl3140cwfunc both specifying Letter instead of A4 as |
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> paper size. |
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> So, I've set "PageSize=A4" in brhl3140cwrc and it now prints correctly aligned |
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> pages once more. |
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> I'm not sure if this is the default path for these files across distros, or if |
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> some symlink from /usr/libexec/cups/filter/ or /usr/share/cups/model/ is not |
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> working as it should. In any case, the bug seems to be that using the cups |
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> GUI interface doesn't have any effect on the driver configuration files which |
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> are by default set to PageSize=Letter and also messes up the created ppd file |
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> used by cups. |
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I think the bug is that "A4" has to be set in so many places, where "so |
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many" means more than one. In a well designed printing system, there |
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would be just one place to set it. |
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> I'm posting this here to save others time, should they come across the same |
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> problem. |
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I've been luckier with printing, but thanks all the same. Who knows |
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when I might no longer be so lucky. |
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> -- |
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> Regards, |
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> Mick |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |
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