[kde-linux] Longstanding printing problems in KDE4

[david]

Bruce Miller wrote:
> 
> Anne, Thanks for the quick reply.
> 
> I have an HP printer. To the best of my knowledge, the non-printable 
> areas on LaserJet printers have not changed since I first used the 
> *_original_* LaserJet back in 1986. They are 0.5" on each of top and 
> bottom and 0.25" on each of left and right (of a US Letter "portrait" page).
> 
> In order to be less harsh on trees, I set up a virtual PDF printer with 
> CUPS. That is where I now test my printing problems with KDE. They occur 
> there too.
>  
> --
> Bruce Miller, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
> bruce at brmiller.ca; (613) 745-1151
> 
> Traduttore traditore
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com>
> To: For people using KDE on Linux with related questions/problems 
> <kde-linux at kde.org>
> Sent: Friday, November 7, 2008 3:03:49 PM
> Subject: Re: [kde-linux] Longstanding printing problems in KDE4
> 
> On Friday 07 November 2008 19:29:23 Bruce Miller wrote:
>  > I have never been able to get a KDE 4 application to print correctly.
> 
> <snip>
> 
> I use HP printers, and some time ago I had a conversation with one of their
> support team on the subject of headers.  I was finding that if I printed 
> 2-up
> my headers printed correctly, but with 1-up I couldn't get headers.  He 
> said
> that the way headers work in most printing jobs, any printer that has a
> minimum of 1/2" non-printable area will have that problem.  I can't 
> remember
> the technical details, though he did explain it to me at the time.
> 
> I suspect that your printer falls into that category, as all mine up to 
> this
> one have done.

Hmmm, I just set up a page in OpenOffice, set the margins to 0", was 
informed that they were outside the print margins, set the page 
background to gray. Then I printed to our HP LJ2015D using the generic 
postscript driver. The entire page was gray except for a 1/4" area all 
the way around. I think the LJ1200 we had before that was similar.

Things may be different for HP inkjets. Some inkjets have some really 
weird and uneven printable areas.

-- 
David
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