I’ve a leap 15.0 system with OpenPrintingPPDs-4.0.0.2-lp150.1.6.noarch installed.
My printer is a lexmark mx611dhe.
On my original system the printer works fine.
A new installation of leap 15.0 will cut top and bottom of output.
The same psfile on my original system prints fine.
But the ppd file is exactly the same. All cups packages are the same
Not even printing with gv does the job.
The same goes on on leap 15.1 and leap 15.2 new installed systems…
Any idea who process the file, what could be different, or how to debug
I really see not what could be different?
The only I guess can be that other packages will affect printing a part of cups and ppds…
My system which works right, has a lot of packages which I have never updated…
LibreOffice open the pdf file or lpr directly prints margin ok but print bar code wrong.
okular seems to have the problem with margins but prints right the bar code in the file
gv complains about "Failed to scan file /tmp/… on both machines
The other file is from ireport printed. So I generated a print to a file as ps.
Printing this ps on new machine has the margin problems but the same file printing on old machine prints right with lpr…
So I’m really confused…
Does lpr not use cups? Where can be lpr configured page size if not using stuff from cups and ppd file?
LibreOffice open the pdf file or lpr directly prints margin ok but print bar code wrong.
okular seems to have the problem with margins but prints right the bar code in the file
With okular you can adjust print margins and paper size via the print dialogue box.
gv complains about "Failed to scan file /tmp/… on both machines
Best to post commands and complete output when wanting to convey information, otherwise others are left to speculate. This is a bit meaningless in the context of the thread.
The other file is from ireport printed. So I generated a print to a file as ps.
Printing this ps on new machine has the margin problems but the same file printing on old machine prints right with lpr…
So I’m really confused…
You’ve lost me a bit here.
Does lpr not use cups? Where can be lpr configured page size if not using stuff from cups and ppd file?
Yes, it is a CUPS CLI utility. You can specify papersize like this
Going to parts:
Applications to print:
gv does not work because it complains about the error mentioned: Nevertheless if you give printqueue as option or nothing
lpr was tested now with
lpr -o fit-to-page: does print whole page, output begins of 1.7cm from top, but barcode is black
(exactly same size as okular but lpr prints out everything while okular cuts 2.54cm from the top, 1.4mm from left and 1.6mm from right)
lpr -o media=a4 does print whole page but larger that fit-to-page, output begins of 5mm from top
My question is who “mangles” or prepares the output of a pdf or ps file?
If I have a ps file which prints on one system well and on the other system bad, cups, okular, gs is same version and cups configuration file the same,
what could be the problem? Is there no debug option for more log messages of cups ?
