Re: [Sheflug] CUPS

["Ian Wright" <nospam [at] iw63.freeserve.co.uk>]

Hi,

I have played with CUPS and it seems quite solid but I have a similar
problem - it seems to ignore 'normal sized' top margins and start printing
right at the edge of the page. I had assumed that I had set the printer up
wrong but maybe not....  It prints OK now but I have had to change the top
margin setting on the WP to more than 25mm. Another peculiarity I found
(which may be Mandrake-specific) was that CUPS is most happy if you let it
find its own printers. I first tried to set up the printer tethered to the
windoze box by long-hand methods and it didn't like it at all. However, when
I used the CUPS set up daemon it trawled the whole network, found all the
printers, I picked the one I wanted to set up and it did the rest OK
straight away.

Ian
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Ian W. Wright
Sheffield  UK
www.iw63.freeserve.co.uk
----- Original Message -----
From: "Will Newton" <will [at] misconception.org.uk>
To: "Sheflug" <sheflug [at] vuw.ac.nz>
Sent: 31 December 2000 00:04
Subject: Re: [Sheflug] CUPS


> On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, wulfie wrote:
>
> > I've just been playing with CUPS (with the gimp-print drivers) from the
> > LFX issue 10 cover CD. I installed from source onto a virgin SuSE 7.0
> > system & had it all running in about 15 mins, including a "just in
> > case" reboot. One security note - the control web server is exposed on
> > port 631 (privelaged, so needs root access - at least in theory) and
CUPS
> > itself is IPP (internet printing) capable, so make sure you set your
> > firewall phasers to "kill" before putting this on a web-facing system.
>
> It looks good, but I've had a few problems with CUPS and fitting text on
> an A4 page. I think I have it setup right everywhere but the edge get's
> cut off anyway. So I'm back to LPRng now.
>
>
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