[cups] Printed area offset from paper area.

[Helge Blischke]

Please do the following:
(1) describe your configuration, especially how your Windows printers are configured
and connected to CUPS.
(2) switch on debug-logging (cupsctl —debug-logging), print a test job which
exhibits the issue, and post (an URL to) the portion of CUPS’s error_log which refers
to that job.

Helge
> Am 01.11.2014 um 21:18 schrieb G.W. Haywood <cups at jubileegroup.co.uk>:
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> We are using CUPS 1.5.3 on Debian Stable (Wheezy).  There are several
> makes of printers in our offices, mostly Brother, Epson, Gestetner,
> NRG and Ricoh, all networked.  The paper size is almost invariably A4.
> Printing from Linux applications works reasonably well.  But Linux is
> really there to do the heavy lifting, and few Linux applications are
> in daily use by office staff themselves - they are largely confined to
> email, and relatively little printing takes place from email-centric
> applications.
> 
> Most of the other applications (production, finance) are unavoidably
> Windows based because of the need to interoperate with Windows-only
> suppliers and customers.
> 
> However printing from Windows applications via CUPS to these printers
> is unsatisfactory.  It seems that the entire printable area is placed
> (on A4) about 20mm too high and about 20mm too far to the right, with
> the result that some of the text is not printed on the paper at all.
> 
> It does not seem to matter which version of Windows is used.  It does
> not seem to matter if the print job is PostScript or PDF.  It does not
> seem to matter what the Windows application is.  It does not seem to
> matter whether we use PPD files provided by printer manufacturers or a
> CUPS-provided generic PPD file to print PostScript from Windows using
> the Windows Imagesetter drivers.  It does not seem to matter if the
> printers are connected directly to the LAN or connected to a computer
> which shares the printer via CUPS.
> 
> Hitting the search engines seems to be telling me that this problem is
> a fairly common one but solutions seem less common.  We ourselves have
> suffered from this problem for several years.  The workaround has been
> to print directly to the printers from the Windows applications, but
> it means that drivers have to be installed on all the Windows machines
> which does not scale well.  Currently I am installing drivers for all
> the printers on a Windows print server to get around that issue.
> 
> Am I missing something obvious?
> 
> -- 
> 
> 73,
> Ged.
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