HP DesignJet 1050C paper size problem

[Anonymous]

Some further information:
etc/papersize contains the following string "a3".
etc/cups/pdftops.conf contains the following line: "psPaperSize	match" (among other lines...)

I understand that if psPaperSize is set to 'match', than pdftops takes the paper size from the PDF file itself.

I am rather lost here...

Thanks, Dekers


> Hi all,
>
> I am using a Debian machine to print out PDF files. The files are drawings of machines but I guess that is not that important. I have 3 formats of paper size: A0, A1, A2.
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> The files are stored locally on the Debian machine and are being printed via shell command.
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> The paper in the printer is a roll of paper in the size of A0.
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> The configuration of the printer is set to rotate the page if needed and the medium size is set to A0.
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> When I print an A0 drawing the drawing is correctly rotated but the size of the print is 50% of an A0 drawing (so it is being shrinked into an A1 page)
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> When I print an A1 drawing the size is OK but the drawing is 90° rotated so I would have to cut access paper, which is actually not acceptable (I will have to cut about 300 sheets of paper by hand...)
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> When I print an A2 drawing the size is OK but it is again 90° rotated.
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> I use the normal DesignJet 1050C driver I found on this site (since January).
> Configuration: rotate is set to YES, Scaling of drawing is set to NO, media size is set to ISO A0, media source is set to ROLLER. As far as I understand all the other things are not relevant for the size of the print.
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> I would be very thankful for any tip or idea you could offer
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> thanks, Dekers
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