Margins with CUPS+SAMBA

[Steven Sweet]

> Hello,
>
> we are using CUPS with Samba to supply printing services to our Windows
> clients in a SAMBA Domain.
>
> There were problems with the margins, for example the CUPS Testpage had
> no borders and from SAMBA on printed webpages there are the header and
> footer missing (title, url, page count, etc).
>
> This happens for several printers. Todays experiences were made with a
> HP LaserJet 1200 series printer using the recommended pxlmono driver.
>
> I got the alignmargins tool from linuxprinting.org and after some trying
> i got the margins setup correctly for linux. The test page looks quite
> pretty, but printing from windows - no chance.
>
> So i used cupsaddsmb to redistribute the ppd file to samba and
> reinstalled the cups-samba driver (there are problems with the
> capitalisation of the filenames of the adobe drivers for cupsaddsmb, but
> this i got solved by renaming). so there is the right ppd file on the
> windows machine (i had a look into it).
>
> What can i do to have the alignmargins settings applied also when
> printing via windows (which is the main application at our site)?
>
> And why do I have to use alignmargins at all? The windows driver would
> choose correct margins by self. Same problem also with other printers.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thx in advance.
> Yours sincerely,
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This is a driver issue.

You can:
1) use the laserjet ppd that comes with CUPS
or
2) contact foomatic people