[cups.general] Phaser 7400DN, really need help!

Helge Blischke h.blischke at acm.org
Fri Oct 16 03:17:42 PDT 2009


John Jason Jordan wrote:

> I am printing to a Phaser 7400DN from Jaunty x86_64. I can print, but I
> cannot get the image to appear correctly on the page if I print on
> anything other than US letter.
> 
> The specific problem is a document of 12" by 18" landscape. I can get
> the upper left 11" wide by 8" high of the image to print, but the rest
> of the page is cut off. The part that prints is centered horizontally
> on the landscape sheet but printed at the top. The result is a left,
> right and bottom empty margin of about 3 1/4". The image on the page is
> actually 17 1/2" by 11 1/2".
> 
> I have tried all the foomatic drivers listed as choices:
> Xerox Phaser 7400DN Foomatic/PostScript [en] (recommended)
> Xerox Phaser 7400DN Foomatic/hpijs [en]
> Xerox Phaser 7400DN Foomatic/lj4dith [en]
> Xerox Phaser 7400DN Foomatic/lj4 [en]
> Xerox Phaser 7400DN Foomatic/lj4d [en]
> 
> Only the first one offers all the paper sizes that the printer is
> capable of, including "custom." The others just offer US and European
> standard paper and envelope sizes with no "custom" option. The hpijs
> won't even RIP, the lj4dith prints only in grayscale, and the lj4
> prints only from tray 2. The PPD file I am using for the first of the
> drivers listed above (the only one I can find) is xr7400dn.ppd, with a
> timestamp of 24 May 2005.
> 
> I have tried printing the document from Scribus (where it was created),
> a PDF export from Scribus with Adobe Reader 9.1, and Okular. I have
> also printed to .ps file and sent the file to the printer with lpr. The
> latter was a spectacular disaster because I can't find the lpr syntax
> for the page size, paper tray, and a host of other options. The .ps
> file views fine on screen with Ghostscript or Okular.
> 
> Any and all suggestions welcome. Even if your suggestion doesn't work
> it may trigger one of my brain cells into thinking of something that
> does work.

Try the Xerox supplied PPD (download from openprinting.org).

Helge





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