[cups.general] Custom paper height limit

[Michael Sweet]

This is most likely either a driver or a printer limit you are running into...

On Jan 26, 2011, at 11:37 AM, Ivan Mica wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I would like to print onto very long continuous paper with my Cannon iP4700, however I crashed on some hard limit, that I can neither cross nor explain...
> 
> E.g.
> $ lp -o media=Custom.21x59.7cm out.ps
> works perfectly, but
> $ lp -o media=Custom.21x69.7cm out.ps
> does not even start to print (job gets however marked as completed)
> 
> I tried to experiment with the corresponding PPD, namely I increase the
> *MaxMediaHeight: "1917"
> to
> *MaxMediaHeight: "2917"
> and
> *ParamCustomPageSize Height: 2 points 257.96 1916.23
> to
> *ParamCustomPageSize Height: 2 points 257.96 2916.23
> 
> with no visible effect... But this was really just an intuitive experiment - I have no previous experience with PPD, so maybe I was doing something wrong.
> 
> Can someone explain this behaviour or give me an advice, where to look to learn how to change the PPD appropriately?
> 
> Thanks in advance
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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair