Re: Firefox always prints landscape

On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:47:34 -0600
Kent West <westk@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Using Sid, 2.6.11-1-686, cupsys

Printing from OpenOffice.org is fine, but whenever I try to print from
Firefix, the output comes out in Landscape with the top part of the text
chopped off. The Print Preview looks fine.

Google hasn't helped much; "about:config" and filtering for "print"
doesn't show anything obviously out of place (but I don't really
understand most of the options here); some of the Googling indicates
that Xprint is somehow involved (I don't really understand Xprint, it's
purpose or it's manner of working), but when I run

export $XPSERVERLIST=`/etc/init.d/xprint get_xpserverlist`

like some Google pages indicate, I get this error:

bash: export: `=:64': not a valid identifier

I've seen that text in the printer names that xprint generates -- printers, btw that don't actually work correctly. There are some other threads in here about xprint and its relative value. I found it more hassle than it was worth and purged it. firefox printing is flawless. ymmv.

oh, and if you do purge it, It'll try to take the x-window-system meta package, iirc, but its only that, a meta-package. again, ymmv.

A


When I run "xplsprinters" I get:

xplsprinters: no printers found for printer spec "".

I've uninstalled all my printers from the cups web interface
(http://localhost:631) and added back in just the one (remote,
networked) HP LJ 4200 printer with which I'm concerned. All the settings
that I can find indicate it should be printing portrait, on Letter
paper. A test print from the cups web interface prints properly.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

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Kent



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