[cups.general] A3+ printing with CP1700?

[Helge Blischke]

pipitas wrote:
> 
> Michael Renner wrote:
> 
> > I own a CP1700, driven with cups. No problem printing A4 or A3 papers. But
> > how can I print A3+?
> 
> Which size is that exactly?
> 
> (A3 has 1190x842 points, or 297x420 mm, but A3+ is somehow undefined...)
> 
> > What's to do? Some special setting with cups? Special settings at the
> > client side?
> 
> Have you tried to use
> 
>   lp -d printername -o PageSize=Custom.440x312mm /path/to/printjobfile
>   lp -d printername -o PageSize=Custom.312x440mm /path/to/printjobfile
> 
> ? (But you probably need to edit the "printername.ppd" to include this
> PageSize first.)
> 
> > Thanks for answers
> 
> Cheers,
> Kurt

>From CUPS 1.1.19 on, you needn't modify the PPD if there are the 5
*ParamCustomPageSize
entries for witdth, height, offsets and orientation, and your width and
height
values are within the PPD specified limits.

Helge

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