how to make cups ignore papersize?

[Helge Blischke]

sinder at thp.uni-koeln.de wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> is there a way to tell cups that it should simply ignore the papersize
> of the document to be printed and to send it to the printer "as is".
> The printer itself is setup in such a way that it ignores the
> papersize and will print the document.
> 
> The problem currently is that when sending documents of letter size via
> cups to our printers they won't be printed (the printing machine starts
> running (noise) but no paper is printed/ejected, ie. the Interpreter
> doesn't seem to be successfull printing CUPS-generated jobs).
> 
> Whereas uploading them directly to the printer via the printer's
> internal webserver they are printed without any problems even
> though they have the wrong papersize.
> 
> We are using Xerox DocuPrint N4525 network printers with the
> Xerox-DocuPrint_N32-Postscript.ppd  foomatic driver.
> 
> Do you have an idea how to make CUPS ignoring the papersize of a
> print job?
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> Andreas

Isn't this printer a native PostScript device? I'd suggest not to use the foomatic driver
but the native PS setup (get the PPD from the Xerox web site if needed, the Win one will do)
and configure the paper mismatch option to scale if needed.

Helge

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