[Hplip-help] How to align paper margins?

[Sebastian K. <seb...@gm...>]

Hello list,

I'm using hplip-2.7.9 on Gentoo with a HP DeskJet 5652. I used the cups
web interface to setup the printer to print to A4 paper in "Normal
Grayscale (auto-detect paper type)" mode and to use double-sided
printing (Long Edge). The PPD I set with hp-setup was
HP-DeskJet_5650-hpijs.ppd.

All works just fine except for the paper margins. When printing a test
page (Cups' or HP's test page) the print gets cut off at the bottom of
the paper (the bottom border isn't printed).

I read about a script that people use to setup their printer margins.
It's called alignmargins:

http://www.linuxprinting.org/download/printing/alignmargins
http://www.linuxprinting.org/download/printing/align.ps

But I wasn't able to correct the margins with it yet.

Can someone please point me in the proper direction to fix this issue?

Regards
Sebastian