number-up margins not behaving as expected

[Brian Muntz]

Yup... I tried that driver as well.  Issue with that is it did not recognize the 11x17 tray on the printer when using media=11x17.  It would always print to the 8.5x11 tray so I gave up on it rather quickly since the other foomatic driver was working.  But I may go back and see if I can figure out why it cant see the tray if that non-foo driver will fix the margin issue.

Currently Im directing prints to the tray by saying "media=11x17".  If I try to print direct to a 11x17 tray using "media=Tray3" the printer will throw an error saying I need to load Tray3 with 8.5x11.  Do I need to specifify the size as well when telling it "media=tray3"?


> You might try using a non-Foomatic driver for the HP LaserJet 9040, =
> which doesn't need Foomatic...
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> On Mar 25, 2010, at 7:05 PM, Brian Muntz wrote:
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> > Thanks Michael.  Info below
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> > Suse: 11.2
> > CUPS: 1.3.9
> > Driver: HP Laserjet 9040 MFP Foomatic/Postscript
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> >> What OS/Linux distribution?
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> >> What version of CUPS?
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> >> What driver?
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> >> On Mar 24, 2010, at 6:53 PM, Brian wrote:
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> >>> All -
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> >>> I am printing a 6 page PDF 2-up in duplex.  Command as follows:
> >>> =3D20
> >>> lp -d HP_9040 -o media=3D3D11x17 -o sides=3D3Dtwo-sided-long-edge -o =
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> >> number-up=3D3D2 -o fitplot Binder1.pdf
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> >>> My issue is everything works great except that there is about a 1" =3D=
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> >> margin around everything.  I have tried almost every option to scale =
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> >> larger, shrink margins, etc but I can not get rid of that 1" margin.  =
> I =3D
> >> have seen a couple other posts with this same question but never =3D
> >> answered (at least that I can find).
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> >>> Does anyone have insight on this issue or experienced this before =
> with =3D
> >> 2-up printing?  1-up works fine.  Just with 2 or more on same page it =
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> >> puts this unmovable margin around it.  Any help is much appreciated =
> :)
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> >>> Thank you
> >>> Brian
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