Brother HL-1440 printing to high ppd has no effect

tj 999alfred at comcast.net
Fri Sep 7 13:50:39 PDT 2007


I have been fighting this war for a while and I really need to get it fixed now.
I have a Brother HL-140 laser and it is printing to high up the page and the upper printing gets cut off. If printing to a form, all printing is to high for the form. The problem seems to be that the upper .17" non-printable area of the printer is not being taken into account.

In looking at the .ppd file, my printer is called 1440 and the file is /etc/cups/ppd/1440.ppd, the ppd tag ImagableArea was:
*ImageableArea Letter/Letter: "18 12 594 780"
which did not seem right, so I recalculated and changed it to
*ImageableArea Letter/Letter: "18 12 576 767"

But, it had NO effect, the printing do not move on the page at all. So, I got even more drastic and changed it to:
*ImageableArea Letter/Letter: "18 12 576 700"
Which should move the printing down a full inch, but it again had no effect. Everything still printed in the exact same place on the page. Shouldn't changing this casue SOMETHING to happen?

I am using Glables on #5371 buisness card stock, but when printing web pages from Firefox the page header is partially cut off also. With the start of printing starting .17" down.

tj





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