[cups.bugs] imageablearea malfuction...

[Michael Sweet]

Jeff Wiegley wrote:
> ...
> Well... it's still a bug because... even if I set the
> imageablearea *inside* the area supported by the printer
> the image gets shifted.  The response I got led me to
> believe that not enough time was taken to understand the
> problem I submitted. I'ld still love to hear a rational
> reason as to why a cropping boundary moves image content. 

Because it is not a cropping boundary, but the image boundaries.
As such, it defines the size of the page image which affects the
size and position of the image on the page.

> ...
> My printer has limitations. In fact it is specifically a
> Hewlett Packard 3330MFP. I have used the laserjet.ppd
> setting.

That printer supports PostScript.  Try the PPD from the
Windows driver disk.

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