Margins on Samsung printer

Jason L Tibbitts III tibbs at math.uh.edu
Fri Aug 27 01:29:57 UTC 2004


>>>>> "JR" == Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh at pacbell.net> writes:

JR> I use a Samsung ML-4500 printer under Fedora Core 2 Linux using Cups. 
JR> As far as I can tell, the printer is configured correctly --
JR> nevertheless the printer cannot print the whole page submitted to it; it
JR> cuts off about 0.3 in. at each margin.  As a consequence pages formatted
JR> by Mozilla don't show the header or footer when printed.

One thing you can try is editing the PPD file.  I had an HP Laserjet
4050 with the same problem, fixed by editing the PPD and changing
ImageableArea entries as appropriate to get things to fit.

The PPD that cups is currently using should be in /etc/cups/ppd.

 - J<





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