MacOSX and epson impact fx-890

[Matt Broughton]

In article <30439-cups.general at news.easysw.com>,
 Jean Pierre Jammet <jpjammet at yahoo.fr> wrote:

> Hello
> I am having some trouble printing to a networked Epson FX=890.  The print 
> comes out legible but though we are specifying 8.5x11 page size it's off by 
> some fractions of an inch.  Because we're using 3part continious forms on pin 
> feeds after a page or two everything is off and the page break is misplaced.
> 
> Using the CUPS Printer Manager (http://localhost:631/printers/) I see:
>  Location: 10.10.0.141
>  Make&Model: Epson 24-pin Series CUPS v1.2
>  Printer State: idle, accepting jobs, published.
>  Device URI: socket://10.10.0.141
> 
> When I print a test page with TextEdit it comes out wrong.

Are you using Page Setup first to choose the Epson printer under "Format 
for:" ?  Have you tried any other text applications such as TextWrangler 
from <http://barebones.com> or SubEtha Edit from 
<http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/>?

> When I print a test page with using a cups command line util or by clicking 
> the "Print Test Page" on the CUPS mgr. then things are OK.

 I'm also thinking that TextEdit may impose some of its own margins.  If 
you print a TextEdit text file via the command line, you may bypass any 
such margins that TextEdit is using.

-- 
Matt Broughton
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