[cups] HP DesignJet 110 custom size problems

[Alex Orange]

Ok, strike that. Apparently it just lost it's head when I told it to do
24x35 the first time, because this time it worked. Upon looking in the
ghostscript driver it appears it's using size A0 for 24x36 and 24x35. This
isn't large enough for 24x48 (A0 is 33.11 x 46.81), and I suspect it's
choking and defaulting back to A4 because of that (by looking at the output
and decoding the PCL I found out my 24x48 is being output on A4 paper size).

I suspect that in order to print on 24x48 I'm going to have to patch
ghostscript (assuming the printer will handle something larger than A0).

Alex

On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 7:30 AM, Alex Orange <crazycasta at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sadly that doesn't seem to be the case:
>
> A. I haven't seen any trouble with 24x48 pdfs. I've even looked at the
> intermediate output by redirecting the filters, it all looks fine in mupdf.
>
> B. More to the point, I just tried a 24x35 and it does a similar thing:
>
> *PageSize 24x35/24x35: "%% FoomaticRIPOptionSetting: PageSize=24x35"
> *FoomaticRIPOptionSetting PageSize=24x35: " -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=1728 -&&
> dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=2520"
> *End
>
> *PageRegion 24x35/24x35: "%% FoomaticRIPOptionSetting: PageSize=24x35"
>
> *ImageableArea 24x35/24x35: "18 34.02 1710 2505.83"
>
> *PaperDimension 24x35/24x35: "1728 2520"
>
> Though the output no longer seems to fit my theory of 8.5x11 for this
> case. If someone can advise me of the right way to send photos I'll gladly
> take a few and send. Upon actual measurement the 24x48 attempt is
> 8.25x10.75. That's edge of paper to right/bottom edge of printing. For
> 24x36 it's 12.5x4.
>
> On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 9:33 PM, Bob <cups-a5729 at listemail.net> wrote:
>
>> ** Reply to message from Alex Orange <crazycasta at gmail.com> on Fri, 28
>> Apr 2017
>> 07:36:50 -0600
>>
>> > I'm trying to print out a poster I made. The poster is 24x48. I'm
>> trying to
>> > print on a roll from an HP DesignJet 110+ nr. It works fine if I print
>> > anything on 16x24 or 24x36, but when I try to print anything (been
>> testing
>> > on https://www.microwaves101.com/downloads/smith%20chart%20in%2
>> 0color.PDF
>> > since it prints faster) on 24x48 it scales as if it's 24x48 but crops to
>> > the 8.5x11 size. I.e. if I had a 24x48 print it would be the same scale,
>> > but only an 8.5x11 portion of that scale. I'm not 100% sure that it's
>> > 8.5x11 and not A4, but it's that basic size.
>>
>> I had a similar problem a while back.  I found that I could select the
>> size I
>> wanted creating a PDF but it would not print anything past 36 inches.  I
>> was
>> told it was a PDF limitation.  You may want to check if this is still a
>> problem.
>>
>> --
>> Robert Blair
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