[cups.bugs] Margin issue after converting from ESP print pro to CUPS

Michael Sweet msweet at apple.com
Fri Aug 15 15:35:05 PDT 2008


David Smith wrote:
> I converted our print servers from ESP Print Pro v4.5.12 about a month ago to CUPS 1.2.4 and now we are seeing text file margin issues.
> 
> On the older environment we could print a text file with 80 characters
> in a column with .25 inch left and right margins and it worked.
> 
> Now under CUPS 1.2.4, I'm getting only 79 characters.  When I look at the output with a ruler the Print Pro output matches exactly 10 characters per inch from left to right.  On the CUPS listing the
> characters start to drift to the right and hence only 79 characters
> can be printed. In fact it is almost 2 characters positions off at
> the 8 inch mark.
> 
> Has anyone seen this type of issue?
> 
> The CUPS release I'm using is from the RedHat distribution.

IIRC, the default text filter in RHEL is texttopaps instead
of texttops.  Should be a simple change to
/etc/cups/mime.types to change the text/plain filter.

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer





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