Unable to do label printing in new CUPS

tong suntong001 at yahoo.com
Thu Sep 7 07:58:49 PDT 2006


Hi

Updated from Debian Sarge to Etch, I just noticed that my label printing does not work any more. My

Debian Sarge CUPS: 1.1.23
Debian Etch CUPS: 1.2.2-1

I used to use the Latex "labels" package to do label printing. But today, when I try it, the printed content is way off the place.

I finally realized now that in Etch the printed content is located at the bottom left of the given page size defined in CUPS. Ie,

If I set the page size to letter in CUPS, and print with

  lpr generated_label.ps

the generated_label is printed at the bottom left of the letter page, if actual letter paper is used. If I use actual label paper, it will be way off the place. If I set the page size to A4 in CUPS, the printed content will shift down from the previous place a little bit.

Previously, the printed content is at the top left corner of the page.  So no matter how big my labels are, and no matter what page size that I set, it will always print correctly to my label, on my ink-jet printer.

I've confirmed that it is the CUPS' problem, not latex's, because printing a previously generated, printed OK ps file yield the same result in new CUPS.

Please help. Thanks a lot.

tong

PS. You can use the following latex file that I used for testing, or I can attach the previously generated, printed OK ps file:

-------------------------------
% LaTeX2e source file

\documentclass[12pt]{article}

% ############################################################## &cs ###
% Preamble

% ============================================================== &ss ===
% ......................................................... packages ...

\usepackage[dvips,dvipdfm]{geometry} % page geometry
%\geometry{papersize={16.5cm,20.2cm}, landscape}
\geometry{papersize={20.2cm,16.5cm}, includeall}
\geometry{tmargin=2mm,bmargin=2mm,lmargin=2mm,rmargin=2mm}
\geometry{showframe}

% ############################################################## &cs ###
%body

\begin{document}
\thispagestyle{empty}  % no page number
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\end{document}
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