Re: [Gimp-print-devel] Left margin must not be less than 9.000000

[Ken M. <zar...@nt...>]

On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 04:58:28PM -0400, Robert Krawitz wrote:
> On 9/28/20 3:29 PM, Ken Moffat via Gimp-print-devel wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I hope this is the right list to ask for help.  I've got an Epson
> > Photo R360 using 5.3.3 with cups-2.3.3 and gimp-2.10.20.  Ordinary
> > printing of text and photos appears to be ok, but -
> > 
> > I'm hoping to print some (tiny) signs for a model, white text on
> > blue background.  At this point I'm guessing about sizes, so I've
> > set up a page of A4 dimensions in gimp (actually 209.97 x 297.01
> > millimetres), put a big blue panel across the top part of the page,
> > and inserted various white text.
> > 
> > But when I use 'print with gutenprint' and tell it to use the image
> > size, I get: two messages:
> > 
> >  Left margin must not be less than 9.000000
> > 
> > and
> > 
> >  Print options not verified, cannot print.
> > 
> > In gimp, the ruler along the top is labelled to almost 2500
> > (pixels?) and the blue runs from about 50 to 2575, starting perhaps
> > 25 below the top of the page.
> > 
> > The printer option for 'Shrink Page if Necessary to Fit Borders' was
> > set to 'Expand (use maximum page area)' and with that a photo
> > printed with a tiny white frame at the sides.
> > 
> > Changing to 'Shrink' makes no difference, it still reports the same
> > errors.
> > 
> > Any suggestions on what I'm doing wrong, please, or alternatively is
> > it a gimp issue ?
> 
> You also need to set the Borderless option to true.
> 

Robert,

thanks for that (second screen of cups, Printer Features Common),

Unfortunately, it did not appear to make a difference.  Meanwhile
I'd already moved some of the text so that I could fill larger
margins with white (and that too had made no difference).

But on this modified file I now tried printing upside down (the
bottom is already empty) and that worked (strictly, it queued the
print which I cancelled - I need to remove a lot of the blue and add
some lining before doing real output).  Very weird.

I'd had a similar 'cannot print' problem on my previous attempt a
few weeks ago, but it turned out my sizing on that was all wrong.
So this time I thought I'd do as little as possible before trying to
print.

I'd originally been thinking about trying to print decals, but in
the end I decided that I can use matt photo paper when I get
something that looks plausible.  So I'm now sorted, apart from
simulatingcurves at the pixel level in gimp ;-)

Many thanks.

ĸen
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