[GRLUG] pdf's printing 2xLarge

Eric Beversluis ebever at researchintegration.org
Mon Sep 10 17:47:57 EDT 2012


If I go into "Print Quality" and set resolution to 300 DPI, it prints
properly. But all resolutions options show a proper-looking page on
print preview from the "Print Quality" dialog.
On Mon, 2012-09-10 at 17:43 -0400, Eric Beversluis wrote:
> It's happening again. Seems to be something in the Trendnet Network
> Server. It doesn't happen when I USB directly to the Linux box. Nor does
> it happen via the print server when printing from Adobe reader in Win or
> Preview in Mac Lion. 
> 
> So is this a problem for Evince or for Trendnet?
> 
> Yes--Evince.
> CUPS Setup:
> Brother-HL1440-Network (Idle, Accepting Jobs, Not Shared)
> Description:	Brother HL-1440-Network
> Location:	Trendnet Networkd Server
> Driver:	Brother HL-1440 - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.2.7 (grayscale, 2-sided
> printing)
> Connection:	socket://192.168.2.105:9100
> Defaults:	job-sheets=none, none media=na_letter_8.5x11in sides=one-sided
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 09:24 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 11:36 -0400, Eric Beversluis wrote: 
> > > When I print pdf's
> > 
> > Print from what application?
> > 
> > I don't see this issue printing PDFs.
> > 
> > > , they're coming out of the printer with each
> > > dimension doubled, so the page only shows 1/4 of the content. When I
> > > look in print preview it seems OK and on the Page Handling tab I have it
> > > set "Shrink to Printable Area." I end up having to manually tell it to
> > > print at 50%. One of the documents that gave me trouble this morning is
> > > a pdf received as a mail attachment; the other is a pdf of a LibreOffice
> > > document saved as .doc and exported to pdf with LibreOffice.
> > > Pdf's are opened in and printed from Document Viewer in Fedora 15.
> > 
> > I assume "Document Viewer" is Evince?
> > 
> > > Sending to Brother HL-1440 laser printer through a TE-100-P1U print
> > > server.
> > 
> > There is a queue on a local CUPS instance that points to this device?
> > What are your options & driver in CUPS?
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