gutenprint driver v5.0.2 breaks my small-paper printing

tong suntong001 at yahoo.com
Thu Oct 23 22:27:27 PDT 2008


[re-posting from
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=503262]

Package: cups-driver-gutenprint
Version: 5.0.2-4
Severity: minor

Hi,

My label printing breaks in my newly installed Debian Lenny
system. It has been working fine in my previous installation.

In my old installation, I was able to correctly print my labels. But
in the newly installed system, the printout is oriented towards the
Bottom-Right corner of the (default) letter page (but a portion of
of left-most printings are off the page).

The two systems are both Debian Lenny, using the same version of
cupsys (v1.3.8-1lenny1). Further, I'm printing the same .ps file for
the testing. The only difference is that in my old installation the
Gutenprint is of v5.0.1 and now v5.0.2:

 $ grep '^\*F.*Version:' /mnt/os1p/etc/cups/ppd/epson_cx1500.ppd /etc/cups/ppd/epson_cx1500.ppd
 /mnt/os1p/etc/cups/ppd/epson_cx1500.ppd:*FormatVersion: "4.3"
 /mnt/os1p/etc/cups/ppd/epson_cx1500.ppd:*FileVersion:   "5.0.1"
 /etc/cups/ppd/epson_cx1500.ppd:*FormatVersion:  "4.3"
 /etc/cups/ppd/epson_cx1500.ppd:*FileVersion:    "5.0.2"

Please pass on the bug to cups.org, so that the bug can be
fixed. I.e., 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 onto the label.

The fix is not only for label printing, but for all other
none standard paper size printing as well. E.g., my
none-standard-sized envelop.

PS. the problem has been reported to cups.general forum:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.printing.cups.general/22567
but no respond posted.

PPS. 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
I
\end{document}
-------------------------------

Thanks

tong

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (300, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-grml (SMP w/1 CPU core; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages cups-driver-gutenprint depends on:
ii  cups                  1.3.8-1lenny1      Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii  libc6                 2.7-13             GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcomerr2            1.41.0-3           common error description library
ii  libcups2              1.3.8-1lenny1      Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii  libcupsimage2         1.3.8-1lenny1      Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii  libgcrypt11           1.4.1-1            LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libgnutls26           2.4.1-1            the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libgpg-error0         1.4-2              library for common error values an
ii  libgutenprint2        5.0.2-4            runtime for the Gutenprint printer
ii  libjpeg62             6b-14              The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii  libkrb53              1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-4 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libpng12-0            1.2.27-2           PNG library - runtime
ii  libtasn1-3            1.4-1              Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii  libtiff4              3.8.2-11           Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra
ii  perl                  5.10.0-15          Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii  zlib1g                1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12  compression library - runtime

cups-driver-gutenprint recommends no packages.

Versions of packages cups-driver-gutenprint suggests:
pn  gutenprint-doc                <none>     (no description available)
pn  gutenprint-locales            <none>     (no description available)

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