Selecting Default page size

[Stephen Dowdy]

David Dudley wrote, On 11/18/2008 03:26 PM:
> I went so far as to delete all references to the A4 page size in my ppd
> file.
>  
> This is a Dell 5110ca color laser printer (really nice under Windoze). 
> As long as I don't use kprinter itself to do the printing (which
> defaults to go through encrypt), things work fine.  Encrypt seems to be
> stuck on A4 as a default, even though I have it set to default to Letter
> in the encrypt.cfg file.

David,

I've got a Dell 5100cn at home and use the Dell provided PPD w/o trouble.

~$ ldd /usr/bin/enscript | grep paper
        libpaper.so.1 => /usr/lib/libpaper.so.1 (0x4289b000)

Enscript uses libpaper, so:

Please check your /etc/papersize file and ensure it's got "letter"
in it.  Otherwise try setting the environment variable
PAPERSIZE=letter
in your shell startup scripts.


Also, for CUPS, check 'lpoptions':
       ~/.cups/lpoptions
       /etc/cups/lpoptions
and use the 'lpoptions' command to view/set your default options:

e.g. (at work w/ LaserJet 4100):
~$ lpoptions
job-sheets=none,none printer-info='HP LaserJet 4100' printer-is-accepting-jobs=1 printer-is-shared=1 printer-make-and-model='HP LaserJet 4100 Foomatic/Postscript (recommended)' printer-state=3 printer-state-reasons=none printer-type=12308 PageRegion=Letter media=Letter page-top=36 page-bottom=36 page-left=36 page-right=36 cpi=12 lpi=7 wrap=true scaling=100 _kde-filters=true number-up=2

--stephen

-- 
Stephen Dowdy  -  Systems Administrator  -  NCAR/RAL
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