Re: [hpoj-devel] Margins?

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Bob Paddock wrote:
> After much pain and agony of getting Mandrake 8.0 and CUPS to be happy with 
> hpoj et.al. I'm down to getting the margins adjusted on my OJ 710.
> 
> Is there any standard way of doing this?
> 
> The test page:
> 
> /usr/share/doc/ghostscript-5.50/pcl3-doc/ps/margins-Letter.ps
> 
> shows about a 1/4 inch white border around the page and 1/2 inch of the page 
> is beyond the end of the paper at the bottom.  There should be no border, and 
> it obviously should be all on the paper.
> 
> There is also the program /usr/sbin/alignmargins but I don't what a 'good 
> one' looks like, shows things shifted up and off the paper on the right side 
> I think.  This program creates margins.ps to feed to GhostScript some place.  
> Is this the correct way to set the margins?
> 
> I'm using the foomatic+cdj550 filter.

Hi, Bob.  In addition to what little advice I was just able to give to Chris
Rhodes (hpinkjet Help forum and upgrading to 0.96), I should also mention
that many printers can't print all the way to the bottom of the page, so
sometimes the very bottom will get cropped.

David