how to make cups ignore papersize?

[Anonymous]

> 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

This printer indeed is a Postscript printer. I've downloaded the PPD
file directly from Xerox but can't find something like a 'paper mismatch'
option as you mentioned above. Here's a link to the PPD file, perhaps
you can see immediately what I need to enable...

http://www.thp.uni-koeln.de/~sinder/n4525.ppd

Again thanks for your advice!
Andreas