[cups.general] text printing wrapping after 83 characters - RHEL v5.4 - laser printer - postscript drivers

Michael Sweet msweet at apple.com
Thu Mar 18 08:30:44 PDT 2010


Disable Red Hat's text filter (texttopaps) and re-enable the CUPS text filter (texttops).

On Mar 18, 2010, at 7:47 AM, Charles Kaltwasser wrote:

> RedHat Linux v5.4
> CUPS 1.3.7
> HP LaserJet 4000 N
> 
> I'm trying to print text lines with 132 characters of data.
> 
> When I change the CPI to greater than 10, the wrap still occurs at 83 characters.  Increasing the margins reduces the characters per line proportionately.
> 
> Looks like the CPI scaling occurs after the wrapping function.
> 
> Have tried using wrap=false and nowrap=true with no change in the results.
> 
> Problem also occurs on Konica-Minolta printers so I suspect the issue is with CUPS on RHEL.
> 
> Any suggestions of where to look next?
> 
> Lynn Kaltwasser
> Calvert County Government
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