[cups] HP DesignJet 110 custom size problems

[Alex Orange]

P.S. I got the numbers mixed up. It was a #2 in the PCL file for page size,
which is actually letter, not A4.

On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 8:30 PM, Alex Orange <crazycasta at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>>>
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>>
>>
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