Re: configure printer, papersize: A4 vs US letter

#1 (**permalink**) 26-Mar-2005, 17:30

c_greenacre@hotmail.com wrote:

> the test print pages clearly say it is printing on A4 paper

Easy..

Yast->Printer->Pick Already installed printer (change) ->Edit->
PrinterFilterSettings-> PageSize (set to US Letter)

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Suse Linux 9.2 | KDE 3.3

#2 (**permalink**) 26-Mar-2005, 18:28

> c_greenacre@hotmail.com wrote:
>
> > the test print pages clearly say it is printing on A4 paper
>
> Easy..
>
> Yast->Printer->Pick Already installed printer (change) ->Edit->
> PrinterFilterSettings-> PageSize (set to US Letter)
>
> --
> Suse Linux 9.2 | KDE 3.3

silly me, newb had no idea what PrinterFilterSettings meant

thanks

#3 (**permalink**) 26-Mar-2005, 20:44

<c_greenacre@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:07n1e.3844$LF2.842@prv-forum2.provo.novell.com...
>> c_greenacre@hotmail.com wrote:
>>
>> > the test print pages clearly say it is printing on A4 paper
>>
>> Easy..
>>
>> Yast->Printer->Pick Already installed printer (change) ->Edit->
>> PrinterFilterSettings-> PageSize (set to US Letter)
>>
>> --
>> Suse Linux 9.2 | KDE 3.3
>
> silly me, newb had no idea what PrinterFilterSettings meant

CUPS is famously painful to configure. Look up the rant by Eric
Raymond on
open source GUI's and CUPS to see what I mean.

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