On 07/06/2015 06:40 PM, walt wrote: > On Mon, 06 Jul 2015 19:41:07 -0500 > Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> walt wrote: >>> On Mon, 06 Jul 2015 16:01:44 -0500 >>> Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Howdy, >>>> >>>> I finally got around to ordering some ink cartridges. Now I want >>>> to do some printing. Thing is, it tries to print ALL the way to >>>> the bottom which ends up blurred and unreadable. I've looked in >>>> Seamonkey settings, nothing. I've looked in Hplip, nothing >>>> there. I've even looked in cups, well, nothing that makes sense. >>>> I don't like the new cups interface. >>> cups, bah! Every time cups is updated my printer 'breaks'. From >>> painful years of experience I now know to 'delete' whatever >>> printer/fax devices cups knows about and use hp-setup (not cups) to >>> recreate them. >>> >>> By 'delete' I'm referring to the cups interface I access by visiting >>> localhost:631 in a web browser. Is that the cups interface you're >>> using? >>> >>> >> >> It used to do the same with me but that stopped a long time ago. > > Dale, did you try it *this* time? If not, please try the > same-ole-same-ole tired remedy just one more time. The price is > right :) > >
Have you tried lpadmin? I seem to recall my old printer I had this problem and was able to use: `lpadmin -o page-bottom-default=36 -o page-top-default=36` That set a system-wide default. IIRC it's set by dpi, but it's been a while. Might have to experiment to see if it still works. To see options you can use `lpoptions -l` My new printer uses foomatic drivers and it works properly without messing around with options to set the margins. If that doesn't help then I don't have a clue... There should be man pages for both lpadmin and lpoptions. Dan
