[cups.general] Labelprinter and Postscript pagesizes

Michael Sweet msweet at apple.com
Wed Sep 15 08:42:47 PDT 2010


On Sep 15, 2010, at 8:40 AM, Thomas Mieslinger wrote:
> Hi *,
> 
> up to now I thought that a postscript point is 1/72 inch. But today I 
> wanted to print on a Zebra GX430t Labelprint. When I configured the 
> pagesize in 1/72 inch point size the label came out very tiny: code example:

108 x 36 points is 1.5 x 0.5 inches.  Are you getting a label smaller than that?

> 
> %!PS-Adobe-3.1 EPSF-3.0
> %%Creator: Foo
> %%Title: Test Label
> %%Pages: 1
> %%LanguageLevel: 2
> %%BoundingBox: 0 0 108 36
> %%CropBox: 0 0 108 36
> %%DocumentPaperSizes: w108h36
> %%EndComments
> 
> /setpagedevice where
> { pop 1 dict
>   dup /PageSize [ 108 36 ] put
>   setpagedevice
> } if
> 
> Then I changed setpagedevice to
> 
> /setpagedevice where
> { pop 1 dict
>   dup /PageSize [ 324 108 ] put
>   setpagedevice
> } if
> 
> and it worked.... Is this really the way to solve the problem?
> 
> Thomas
> 
> P.S.: I used cups 1.4.2
> 
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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair








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