Dropping First couple characters on left side of Page

[Michael Sweet]

Russbucket wrote:
> I have an HP G55 officejet printer. I have the latest versions of CUPS, the
> HP print drivers ,etc. I'm new to Linux. Where can I increase the size of
> the left margin, It appears the driver does not allow enough space for the
> none printable area. I'm printing 8.5" x 11" pages. 
> 
> Using SuSE 9.0 personal.

The following provides a 1/4" margin on the left and right:

     lpoptions -p printer -o page-left=18 -o page-right=18

The numbers are in points (72 points = 1 inch, ~28 points = 1 cm)

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