[cups.general] What will CUPS do if I send A4 to a Letter printer.

[Helge Blischke]

Reg Clemens wrote:
> 
> > clemens at dwf.com wrote:
> > >
> > > The Subject line says it all.
> > > What SHOULD happen if I use lpr to send a document that will
> > > want A4 paper to a printer whose PPD file says it only does
> > > Letter?
> > >
> > > Should I get an error message at the time of the LPR?
> > > Later?
> > > How?
> > >
> > > Or will the print job just sit in the print queue forever?
> > >
> > > Or print as best it can?
> >
> > In case of a PostScript printer (a native one), you should configure the
> > printer
> > (the easiest way is to use the "configure printer" button on the web
> > interface).
> > The printer(s) should support
> > a) center and/or scale down the logical page to fit onto the physical
> > page
> > b) center and/or crop the logical page to the physical page
> > c) do nothing special
> > e) ask for operator interaction.
> > All this can be configured by PostScript code (or, on some printers, by
> > job control
> > language statements) and should be offered by the printer's PPD.
> >
> 
> Is there a CUPS command-line that will do this too?
>
Read the lpadmin manpage. 
For instance, to set a) above for the printer "yourprinter", use
	lpadmin -p yourprinter -o DefaultHPPaperPolicy=NearestSizeAdjust
Yes, you need to know how the PPD options read; you may list them by
	lpoptions -p yourptinter -l

Helge

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