[cups.general] Letter instead of A4 after install viaPoint'n'Print

[Helge Blischke]

Kay Obermueller wrote:
> Helge Blischke schrieb:
> 
> 
>>Kay Obermueller wrote:
>> 
>>
>>
>>>Hello everyone,
>>>according (hopefully) to these howtos I have setup printers and prepared
>>>their cups postscript drivers to be installed automatically via Samba and
>>>the so called Point'n'Print method:
>>>
>>>https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-456501-highlight-.html
>>>http://www.linuxprinting.org/kpfeifle/SambaPrintHOWTO/Samba-HOWTO-Collection-3.0-PrintingChapter-11th-draft.html
>>>
>>>Everything works pretty well except that a new windows client that
>>>installs the driver tries to print out as Letter instead of A4. I can then
>>>change this setting and it is correctly saved, but only on this particular
>>>client. Is there a way to set this beforehand in the driver on the server?
>>>In smb.conf this is set:
>>>default devmode = Yes
>>>Does this have influence on this issue?
>>>Just this "little" problem needs to be solved then this Cups server works
>>>_perfectly_. Who has an idea and would like to help me?
>>>
>>>Kay
>>>
>>>   
>>>
>>
>>You should set the default attributes on the CUPS server before. The cupsaddsmb stuff
>>uses the PPDs as configured for the CUPS server (from /etc/cups/ppd directory).
>>
>>Helge
>>
>>
>> 
>>
> 
> When I do:
> #grep A4 R020-magicolor.ppd
> I get:
> *DefaultPageSize: A4
> *PageSize A4/A4: "%% FoomaticRIPOptionSetting: PageSize=A4"
> *FoomaticRIPOptionSetting PageSize=A4: "-p9 "
> *DefaultPageRegion: A4
> *PageRegion A4/A4: "%% FoomaticRIPOptionSetting: PageSize=A4"
> *DefaultImageableArea: A4
> *ImageableArea A4/A4: "11.34 11.34 583.66 830.66"
> *DefaultPaperDimension: A4
> *PaperDimension A4/A4: "595 842"
> 
> #grep Letter /etc/cups/ppd/R020-magicolor.ppd
> gives this:
> *PageSize Letter/Letter: "%% FoomaticRIPOptionSetting: PageSize=Letter"
> *FoomaticRIPOptionSetting PageSize=Letter: "-p1 "
> *PageRegion Letter/Letter: "%% FoomaticRIPOptionSetting: PageSize=Letter"
> *ImageableArea Letter/Letter: "11.34 11.34 600.66 780.66"
> *PaperDimension Letter/Letter: "612 792"
> *MediaType Letterhead/Letterhead: "%% FoomaticRIPOptionSetting:
> MediaType=Letterhead"
> *FoomaticRIPOptionSetting MediaType=Letterhead: "-m259 "
> 
> 
> In both ppd's. In /etc/cups/ppd and in /var/lib/samba/printers/W32X86/3
> it is the same. And I already printed correctly in A4 to this printer
> from Linux and OS X via IPP before using cupsaddsmb.
> But here I can find Letter and no A4:
> 
> #strings /var/lib/samba/ntprinters.tdb | grep Letter
> result:
> Letter
> Letter
> 
> Maybe it is related to what is described here:
> http://www.linuxprinting.org/kpfeifle/SambaPrintHOWTO/Samba-HOWTO-Collection-3.0-PrintingChapter-11th-draft.html#AEN851
> /* */
> Should I better not use "default devmode = yes" in smb.conf and repeat
> cupsaddsmb?/**///
> 
> Kay
> 
That might be, though I never encountered an issue like you described.

Helge


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