[cups.general] margins or page size ignored when using cpi?

[Michael Sweet]

On Aug 12, 2009, at 2:28 PM, Kyle Schmitt wrote:

> It's a little dated, RHEL 4.7 running cups-1.1.22, against a printer  
> running the Dell M5200 Foomatic/Postscript driver.
> Unfortunately oracle sometimes dictates old version of the OS.
>
> Prompted by your question I tested it on two more systems:
> RHEL 5.3 (cups 1.3.7) with the Dell M5200 Foomatic/Poscript driver:  
> same problem
> RHEL 5.3 (cups 1.3.7) with the Generic Poscript driver: same problem
> Ubuntu 9.x ((cups 1.3.9) with the Generic Postscript driver: renders  
> as expected
>
> So, without upgrading the OS, is there a way to fix this?

Could be the Red Hat replacement text filter - verify that you don't  
have a texttopaps (I think that's the name) filter in /usr/lib/cups/ 
filter.  If you do, make sure to comment out the mime.convs line  
specifying its use and uncomment the line for texttops.

>
>
>> What version of CUPS, what OS/Linux distribution, and what driver are
>> you using?
>>
>> On Aug 12, 2009, at 12:39 PM, Kyle Schmitt wrote:
>>
>>> It appears that margins are being ignored when I use the cpi option
>>> to try and print text.
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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer