Offsets for printing PDF files using CUPS 1827

Unruh

I see noetc-cups-lpoptions. My installation which was produced by using the 'make install' command, has only ausr-bin-lpoptions.

I have had a look at pstops. Nothing there springs out as the source of a potential solution. I also looked at common.c

The printer I am using is a HP Colour LaserJet 2605dn. Initially I got CUPS to print on it using the laserjet.ppd supplied as part of the CUPS v1.3 source distribution. The strange margins appeared at that stage. But that ppd only used grey scale. There is another ppd on linuxprint.org which is stated as working perfectly. Well, when I tired it, nothing printed at all. So I cannot confirm the claim of it being perfect, at least on Fedora 4. By looking at that ppd's code, it appears to be Macintosh oriented. So I modified the laserjet.ppd to produce colour printing. It is that ppd that I am now using.

When used with Postscript and PDF files, the margins at the top and bottom of the page were off, by different amounts for those two file types. One suggestion that I received was that the page size set in CUPS for the printer might be US Letter. Using the CUPS browser interface showed that was so, and this has now been corrected. Printing of Postscript files now works well. However, the margin at the top of PDF files is still approximately 5mm narrower than at the bottom. I am now looking for a solution to overcoming that (small) offset. Although the size of the PDF and Postscript versions of a file appear identical on the printed page, their horizontal margins are out by this 5mm, while their vertical margins are identical.