no A4 printing
no A4 printing
Hallo,
configuring via CUPS wizard went just fine, BUT: every time I try printing nothing happens besides an error message on the printer's (HP laserjet 4) display like "load paper letter" although the CUPS printer's configuration states correctly "media size A 4".
What am I supposed to do? help! many thanks
Viviane
configuring via CUPS wizard went just fine, BUT: every time I try printing nothing happens besides an error message on the printer's (HP laserjet 4) display like "load paper letter" although the CUPS printer's configuration states correctly "media size A 4".
What am I supposed to do? help! many thanks
Viviane
no A4 printing
Hallo & thanks,
about the test page: I forgot to mention that the test page was printed in A4 size BUT afterwards the error occured each time.
No it's not some interfering printer setting because I'm using windows xp on the other partition of the laptop and it's working just fine. Sorry to say ... somehow it's the pup's doing ....
any more ideas? Thanks again
Viviane
about the test page: I forgot to mention that the test page was printed in A4 size BUT afterwards the error occured each time.
No it's not some interfering printer setting because I'm using windows xp on the other partition of the laptop and it's working just fine. Sorry to say ... somehow it's the pup's doing ....
any more ideas? Thanks again
Viviane
no A4 printing
Hi again,
the program I'm trying to print from is abiword - same as from windows which works perfectly.
And I guess the printer's default setting is A4 because I never had any problems before ... or is there any way to check this elusive default setting??? I must admit to being an absolute non-geek used to happily stumbling around on the windows surface ... the pup was a present I gave to myself for x-mas ....
many thanks
Viviane
the program I'm trying to print from is abiword - same as from windows which works perfectly.
And I guess the printer's default setting is A4 because I never had any problems before ... or is there any way to check this elusive default setting??? I must admit to being an absolute non-geek used to happily stumbling around on the windows surface ... the pup was a present I gave to myself for x-mas ....
many thanks
Viviane
no A4 printing
Hi again,
checked both settings: the printer's default is A4, when the paper tray's empty the display reads "no paper,load A4" BUT the moment the printing job gets transfered from abiword the message changes to "load letter". The setting within abiword mirrors that of CUPS, recognizing correctly the printer PLUS paper format A4.
Where does it take the wrong turn???
Help, thanks
Viviane
checked both settings: the printer's default is A4, when the paper tray's empty the display reads "no paper,load A4" BUT the moment the printing job gets transfered from abiword the message changes to "load letter". The setting within abiword mirrors that of CUPS, recognizing correctly the printer PLUS paper format A4.
Where does it take the wrong turn???
Help, thanks
Viviane
no A4 printing
forgot to mention I already checked this too ... A4...
thanks
Viviane
thanks
Viviane
no A4 printing
... it's tray 1 .... bad news or good?
no A4 printing
well - guess what I'm doing since day one? Putting paper in the tray and - nothing happens because it's size A4 and the pup doesn't feed on it, like my Siamese it's quite partial to it's dinner and demands - letter ...
changing the setting from tray one to two, will do tomorrow morning, the printers's in the next room, I'll keep you posted
thanks for your patience
good night from Switzerland
Viviane
changing the setting from tray one to two, will do tomorrow morning, the printers's in the next room, I'll keep you posted
thanks for your patience
good night from Switzerland
Viviane
no A4 printing
Good morning,
didn't work. Although along the way a longtime riddle was answered...
After I changed the setting to tray 2 the manual feed thingy didn't work plus the error message stayed the same "load letter". Then I tried out some more options "standard", "manual" and "automatic" to no avail but getting a different error message on the printer's display at one step "mz load letter" meaning - I believe - manuelle Zufuhr" something like "manual feed" instead of "pk load letter" what I think mens "Papier Kassette" (paper cassette" (I've been wondering for years now about this "pk" thing whenever the papertray was empty... now I know but that doesn't solve the format problem. But it's nice to get SOME answer ha-ha).http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/images/icons/icon9.gif
That was it about the tray option (I'll reset the default option "tray 1" ?).
Another stone still left unturned???
Thanks again...
Viviane
didn't work. Although along the way a longtime riddle was answered...
After I changed the setting to tray 2 the manual feed thingy didn't work plus the error message stayed the same "load letter". Then I tried out some more options "standard", "manual" and "automatic" to no avail but getting a different error message on the printer's display at one step "mz load letter" meaning - I believe - manuelle Zufuhr" something like "manual feed" instead of "pk load letter" what I think mens "Papier Kassette" (paper cassette" (I've been wondering for years now about this "pk" thing whenever the papertray was empty... now I know but that doesn't solve the format problem. But it's nice to get SOME answer ha-ha).http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/images/icons/icon9.gif
That was it about the tray option (I'll reset the default option "tray 1" ?).
Another stone still left unturned???
Thanks again...
Viviane
Re:no A4 printing
If you look in the CUPS config for "Media Source", what tray is it set for? I believe that the manual feed is 1 and the paper cassette is 2.
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Same problem
Hi,
I have almost the same problem. Here's my setup:
-Printer is HP Color Laserjet 3700dn, using network interface
-Printer installed with CUPS, using "HP Color LaserJet Series PCL 6 CUPS" driver. Test page prints fine (A4)
-Printer CUPS settings are as follows:
* Media Size: A4
* Media Source: Tray 2
* Output Mode: Grayscale
* Output Resolution: 600dpi
* Double-Sided Printing: Off
I'm trying to print a PDF document opened from Seamonkey using PDF Viewer 0.1.7. Page settings in PDF Viewer are as follows:
* Paper Size: A4
* Orientation: Portrait
* Layout: Plain
* Mode: Grayscale
* Resolution: 600dpi
The PDF document is an A4 document.
However, when I try to print it out, my printer says "LOAD TRAY 1 PLAIN LETTER". At this point I can manually override the paper source from the printer. If I do this, the page prints out as letter printed on A4 (and with color as well, even though I have set it to print grayscale).
This is a big problem, as the only thing I need from the computer I have puppy installed on is to print A4 PDF files (receipts to my customers).
I have almost the same problem. Here's my setup:
-Printer is HP Color Laserjet 3700dn, using network interface
-Printer installed with CUPS, using "HP Color LaserJet Series PCL 6 CUPS" driver. Test page prints fine (A4)
-Printer CUPS settings are as follows:
* Media Size: A4
* Media Source: Tray 2
* Output Mode: Grayscale
* Output Resolution: 600dpi
* Double-Sided Printing: Off
I'm trying to print a PDF document opened from Seamonkey using PDF Viewer 0.1.7. Page settings in PDF Viewer are as follows:
* Paper Size: A4
* Orientation: Portrait
* Layout: Plain
* Mode: Grayscale
* Resolution: 600dpi
The PDF document is an A4 document.
However, when I try to print it out, my printer says "LOAD TRAY 1 PLAIN LETTER". At this point I can manually override the paper source from the printer. If I do this, the page prints out as letter printed on A4 (and with color as well, even though I have set it to print grayscale).
This is a big problem, as the only thing I need from the computer I have puppy installed on is to print A4 PDF files (receipts to my customers).
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I have been using Puppy 4.1.2 on a Compaq Armada M700 and using an HP 4 Plus printer for some time and have had problems getting the printer to stop asking for letter ie LOAD LETTER.
I found an atricle by Mr Toad entitled "At last - the solution for printing to A4 on my Laserjet III" which dealt with this problem and suggested among other things the following:
in a text editor open the file /usr/share/ghostscript/8.51/lib/gs-init.ps
and uncom8.51ment the line % /DEFAULTPAPERSIZE (a4) def - do this by removing /
the % symbol at the beginning *and* the space next to it. This is the
really important change!
It worked for me but does so no longer. All it does now is to stop printing completely. Very frustrating!
This may be of help. I would love a solution to this problem. It has caused me many wasted hours.
Russell
I found an atricle by Mr Toad entitled "At last - the solution for printing to A4 on my Laserjet III" which dealt with this problem and suggested among other things the following:
in a text editor open the file /usr/share/ghostscript/8.51/lib/gs-init.ps
and uncom8.51ment the line % /DEFAULTPAPERSIZE (a4) def - do this by removing /
the % symbol at the beginning *and* the space next to it. This is the
really important change!
It worked for me but does so no longer. All it does now is to stop printing completely. Very frustrating!
This may be of help. I would love a solution to this problem. It has caused me many wasted hours.
Russell
@differential: Mr. Toad's fix sounds the most reasonable. It suggests that ghostscript ignores the A4 setting information provided by the application and formats the print job as Letter size. Since the printer's default setting is A4, it prompts the operator to load some letter paper.
Unfortunately, the fact that this fix stopped working for you leaves it up in the air. Are there any other A4 users out there with old Laserjets that can confirm this?
Unfortunately, the fact that this fix stopped working for you leaves it up in the air. Are there any other A4 users out there with old Laserjets that can confirm this?