[ale] Printer margin offsets?

[James P. Kinney III]

Hmm. Up and to the right sounds like the default paper size may be set
to A4 instead of letter.

On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 08:16, Fulton Green wrote:
> This question may have been asked previously, but all that was *before* I
> broke out my printer. <grin/>
> 
> I'm using a cheapo (as in the ink cartridge probably costs more than the
> printer itself) Canon BJ-200e. This printer has driver support thanks to the
> Ghostscript-based Omni subsystem. I'm currently using the GNOME environment,
> in which apps typically use LPRng to spool.
> 
> What I'm seeing ... both the Printconf test page and any output I try from
> AbiWord seem to be mispositioned by the time they make it to printer ink.
> Specifically, it's as if the PostScript output (which I've confirmed to be
> correct) winds up getting "shoved" up and to the right relative to the
> paper, creating a clipping effect at the top and right as well as leaving
> extra whitespace on the left and bottom of the paper.
> 
> So ... does anyone out there know if it's possible to tweak the printer
> margins strictly through configuration (i.e., not have to change source
> code)? If so, what have your experiences been? TIA.
> 
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