[ale] Printing via cups and kde oddness?

Josh Freeman jkfreeman at gmail.com
Thu Apr 21 17:22:00 EDT 2005


I've had this problem before, and I seem to recall that the solution
is not to use the Xprint printer (printer:64 or something to that
effect) but to use the printer instance set up by Cups.

Josh

On 4/21/05, Robert L. Harris <Robert.L.Harris at rdlg.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>   I have a machine at home running Debian Linux and CUPS.   This system
> shares out an HP Deskjet 882C via samba for my wife's laptop.  This
> works wonderfully.
> 
>   If I try to print from the machine itself from Firefox or most other
> applications any graphics are printed about 10 times larger than they
> should be (I get about 1/3 of a dilbert window/frame.
> 
>   I can't find any settings in Firefox or KDE but get the feeling I'm
> overlooking something.
> 
> Any ideas I can poke around with?
> 
> :wq!
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