Epson printer settings

[Helge Blischke]

Richard Bown wrote:

>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> On Sep 30 11:38 Richard Bown wrote (shortened):
>> >> On Sep 30 06:10 Richard Bown wrote (shortened):
>> >>> OS Fedora FC13X86_64 DM Gnome
>> >> ....
>> >>> If I go to the cups maintenace/ setdefaults, it is set at 720x360
>> >>> and you can set the defaults, but it still uses 2880x2880 as
>> >>> its default resolution.
>> >>
>> >> Perhaps
>> >> http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Print_Settings_with_CUPS
>> >> might help you to find out where the unexpected 2880x2880
>> >> resolution could be stored.
>> >>
>> > Thanks, I had a look at that and as a result did this:-
>> ....
>> > /home/richard/.cups/lpoptions
>> ....
>> > So there is only one lpoptions on this computer and that shows
>> > the print resolution at 1444 x 720 dpi
>> > Thats nothing like 2880 x 2880
>> > There is another file hidden somewhere, ???
>>
>> Have a closer look at
>> http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Print_Settings_with_CUPS
>> so that you would notice "/etc/cups/lpoptions".
>>
>>
>>
> 
> Does cups take any default settings from the .ppd
> I'm using grep to search the whole system for "2880x2880"
> 
> The only place this is appearing so far is the printer .ppd file.
> 
> TIA
> Richard

The pstops filter does insert the PostScript statements from the default 
settings of the printer's PPD into the setup section of the job.

Helge