[cups.general] margin problems with an officejet 5610

[jeff covey]

it's been two weeks, and no one's replied.  anyone have any suggestions?

thanks,
jeff


On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 6:36 PM, jeff covey <jeff.covey at pobox.com> wrote:

> here's a copy of a message i posted to my local linux users group.
> the members batted it around for some time, but no one found a
> solution.  i'm hoping someone here will have an idea.  thanks for your
> time!
>
>
> has anyone had any luck with resolving printer margin problems with
> cups in ubuntu?  i'm printing with an officejet 5610, and the bottom
> of each page is always chopped off.  printing a test page has shown me
> that actually all four sides of the page are trimmed, the bottom is
> just the worst, and the one that most often effects print jobs.
>
> i've put a copy of the test page here with a low-resolution scan of
> how it looks when it's printed:
>
> http://jeffcovey.net/tmp/cups/
>
> (the printed version is straight and in full color, it was just
> twisted slightly sideways by the scanner's automatic feeder.)
>
> the original has boxes continuing to the edge of the page, and the
> printed version just includes part of the outermost boxes.
>
> i've tried setting the margins to 0 and turning "scale to fit" on and
> off with system-config-printer, but nothing changed.  has anyone else
> seen this and found a solution?

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jeff covey
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