[Tfug] Printing problem

Steve Franks stevefranks at ieee.org
Thu Jan 29 23:35:36 MST 2009


On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Claude Rubinson
<rubinson at u.arizona.edu> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 05:38:56PM -0700, christopher floess wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Daniel Duerr <dduerr at email.arizona.edu> wrote> Just thought I'd let you know that I'm running into the same thing.
>> It's weird, there isn't any consistency to it either. I printed two
>> different years of a calendar in pdf format, and one did Letter while
>> the other did A4, even though in the pdf properties dialogs they both
>> said Letter.
>
> Ahh... a debugging challenge!  Since Dan and I are in the same office
> and networked to the same printer, we're able to hold some of the
> variables constant.  Dan -- email me (or sneaker-net me) some of your
> problematic files and we'll see if we can recreate the problem.
>
> Claude
>
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I have the same problem at work - for me, it's only with a specifc
printer, if that helps you, could be CUPS doesn't like the PPD file.
Haven't bothered myself, too many printers at work anyhow.

Steve




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